A workaround for the fact that a scheduled task in Windows requires a user to be logged in

Question

I am running a small executable created by a third party that needs to run at regular intervals on a Windows 2008 server. This executable effectively ETLs information from

Answer 1

It would seem that from the research I have done (and David Heffernan's answer), without affecting the source code, this is not possible.

There are some useful thoughts on How can I run a Windows GUI application on as a service? which relate to this but none give a viable workaround to this problem.