Stupid Boy
01-20-2006, 09:30 PM
I wanted to run F@H on Windoze computers at school without having to go through the computer administrators. I'll talk to them if I can't get it working effectively, but I at least want to find a way to do it without their permission.
The School uses Novell and Windoze XP. It's sort of maybe kind of not really thinking about switching to SuSE with Novell. Here ideas and why they don't work:
Setting F@H up as a service - This worked last year because an old image because had no administrator password, but it doesn't work on the new image.
Setting it as a scheduled task to run upon login - I had could create the task, but I was told at the end of the wizard that I didn't have permission to enable it (Not the exact word Windoze used).
The rest involve the Startup directory. This is less desirable because it would only allow folding when a user is logged on. Still, it's better than nothing.
Putting the F@H executable in the Startup directory - People will close the window, and the various files created (MyFolding.html, etc.) get run too.
Putting the following vbscript in the Startup directory:Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run "..\..\..\svchost.exe",0,True
Set objShell = Nothing(I renamed the F@H executable to "svchost.exe" in case people check the task list.)
This is supposed to run the program in the background, but for some reason it only works when I manually run it; it does not work when it is automatically run at startup. I tried using C:\Documents and Settings\Student\svchost.exe as well, but that didn't work at all. This would be the best thing I think out of all the things here if someone could get it working.
Creating a link to the F@H executable, setting it to run minimized and putting it in the Startup directory - This is what I'm trying now. I doubt it will work; even though it's minimized, people will close it simply because it's there.
The last idea is simply to leave my account on with F@H running. That would only be one CPU though...
Does anyone have any ideas?
The School uses Novell and Windoze XP. It's sort of maybe kind of not really thinking about switching to SuSE with Novell. Here ideas and why they don't work:
Setting F@H up as a service - This worked last year because an old image because had no administrator password, but it doesn't work on the new image.
Setting it as a scheduled task to run upon login - I had could create the task, but I was told at the end of the wizard that I didn't have permission to enable it (Not the exact word Windoze used).
The rest involve the Startup directory. This is less desirable because it would only allow folding when a user is logged on. Still, it's better than nothing.
Putting the F@H executable in the Startup directory - People will close the window, and the various files created (MyFolding.html, etc.) get run too.
Putting the following vbscript in the Startup directory:Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run "..\..\..\svchost.exe",0,True
Set objShell = Nothing(I renamed the F@H executable to "svchost.exe" in case people check the task list.)
This is supposed to run the program in the background, but for some reason it only works when I manually run it; it does not work when it is automatically run at startup. I tried using C:\Documents and Settings\Student\svchost.exe as well, but that didn't work at all. This would be the best thing I think out of all the things here if someone could get it working.
Creating a link to the F@H executable, setting it to run minimized and putting it in the Startup directory - This is what I'm trying now. I doubt it will work; even though it's minimized, people will close it simply because it's there.
The last idea is simply to leave my account on with F@H running. That would only be one CPU though...
Does anyone have any ideas?