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I found and think I have marked this thread as solved.

I'm not sure how to do that. I'll keep looking but I didn't see where to mark it as solved.

Actually I just tried that and what I ended up doing was creating a shortcut to that bat file and it appears to work. It is about 20 or 30 seconds after I am logged on but that is fine. Thanks for your help, it helped a lot.

Well I tried to put it into the "Shell:Startup" folder and I cannot. It seems that even the first exe file will not run without Windows Defender blocking it. I tried running it manually, it got blocked. I told it to run anyhow, it ran. I then tried to place it in the Shell:Startup folder and it...

I am not sure what is going on but here is what I did. I converted my original bat file to an exe file. I tried multiple time to run it and Malwarebytes quarantined it. No matter how many time I restored it, Malwarebytes would not allow it to run. I assume the same thing would happen to your exe...

Well I guess I am not going to be able to test the second one. My Microsoft Defender will not allow it to be opened. It has, for some reason, quarantined it twice.

I can almost guarantee it is not going too fast for me to see. I had to run the original bat file manually as I always have to get that computer to be visible on my network. My original bat file also ran manually but would not run at log on from the task scheduler. I will give it a try though...

I created the task again in Task Scheduler using the Test.exe. It runs manually from inside the task Scheduler, but it still doesn't run when the machine boots up. Thanks for trying.

I believe I did what you said to do, please see attachment. After changing that to SYSTEM the bat file would not run manually within the Task Scheduler and it did not run when the computer booted up either.

OK, I can do that. I will give it a try. Thank you.

I am concerned so I called my computer builder and asked if I could change my user name from my name to System. He said I couldn't do that because it would not boot up anymore. Maybe I am misunderstanding you as to what you want me to do. If I am creating a new user he said that was OK. But if...

I am not sure how to do that. There is only one account and it is my name. How do I change that and would it affect my network? Right now when a computer does not show up in File Explorer on my main machine, all I have to do is go to that computer and manually run that bat file and then it...

I think you misunderstood me. The bat file I have now runs perfectly when run manually both from the desktop shortcut or manually inside the Task Scheduler. I copied your code from above and made it a bat file. I ran it, and it too runs manually. So, since your code does run manually for me...

I am not totally understanding you. The bat file I have now in the Task Scheduler is told to run with highest privileges and if I run it manually it does work. Are you saying to use what you created above as a new bat file and replace the one I have now in the Task Scheduler? I am not at all...

This is the bat file: net stop "Function Discovery Resource Publication" net start "Function Discovery Resource Publication"