Start client on boot (without manual login) on Windows

[Evil André]

Just wanted to share a solution I found to starting the client on boot, without having to manually log in, on Windows 10/11.

My issue was that the client wouldn't start after a reboot, unless someone logs into the machine. This makes reboot, power outage or automatic updates quite disruptive.

So I enabled ARSO - Winlogon automatic restart sign-on, which is a Local Group Policy for automatically signing in the last interactive user. This still maintains a lock screen however, which is useful for security reasons.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... -on--arso-

Found this solution here:
https://superuser.com/questions/1726588 ... t-possible

I found this worked better than trying to create a task in the Task Scheduler to start on boot. For some reason, the client sometimes started, sometimes didn't.

If there are other options for this, I'm all ears. I couldn't find a thread about this on the forum or on Google.

[muziqaz]

Other option is to just use Windows like the rest of the world uses, with automatic log in. Works like a charm The only problem is, that Windows client is killed by system reboots too harshly, and you will lose the WU you were folding on during the reboot. Solution, to pause before reboot, which requires user monitoring of the system. User monitoring is required for the system which fold anyways. So best to set windows update to download only and notify, and manually update at certain intervals. Leaving windows unattended is generally horrible idea