Task scheduler Application and Focus

Question

I need to run a task using the scheduler, the problem is that, if I double click on the executable, the program gets the focus and run in full screen, if I run the same executable using task scheduler, the command window remains on top and the application runs on the background, can please somebody help me?

cheers

Answer 1

This is probably a bit late for you but I ran into the same problem with Google chrome not receiving focus when started by task scheduler, and this is how I fixed it:

Start Program field: C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe
Argument field: /c start "" "C:\Program Files\Chrome\Chrome.exe" --some-arguments

This will basically open up cmd.exe and pass the arguments to it, because /c is specified it will run those arguments and then close.

Since start will give anything started with it focus, chrome comes up with its window focused.

Have fun.

Answer 2

I did manage to revolve the problem with a vbs script running my executable instead of running the executable directly from the task scheduler. So now the task scheduler runs my vbs script that runs the executable.