Can you start a winform program before windows logon?

[frietlied]

Hello,

 

I would like to run a .exe winform program that is interactive before any user can login in windows 10.

I have already tried a few things, like running it as a scheduled task or as a startup script, but if I do it like this, the program always runs in the background and I can't see/use the GUI.

 

Thanks in advance!

[mikat]

i'm pretty sure it's not possible, and why would you want to do this?

[Murasaki]

5 minutes ago, frietlied said:

Hello,

 

I would like to run a .exe winform program that is interactive before any user can login in windows 10.

I have already tried a few things, like running it as a scheduled task or as a startup script, but if I do it like this, the program always runs in the background and I can't see/use the GUI.

 

Thanks in advance!

You will need to have a service for your program to pull this off.

[frietlied]

2 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

You will need to have a service for your program to pull this off.

But if I run it as a service, will I get to see the GUI and interact with it?

[Murasaki]

Just now, frietlied said:

But if I run it as a service, will I get to see the GUI and interact with it?

I don't know but it's worth giving it a try.

[frietlied]

6 minutes ago, mikat said:

i'm pretty sure it's not possible, and why would you want to do this?

Just trying some stuff out ;). I would like to make a very basic program that runs before the windows logon, that I can use on my very old/slow pc so that it can do basic tasks without having to start the whole windows OS. 

[frietlied]

8 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

I don't know but it's worth giving it a try.

hmmm, I looked it up, and everywhere I go, people are saying that services are almost always used to run background tasks and not an interactive GUI.  Any other ideas?

[MagnusGrønstad]

11 minutes ago, frietlied said:

hmmm, I looked it up, and everywhere I go, people are saying that services are almost always used to run background tasks and not an interactive GUI.  Any other ideas?

try a linux based attempt?