watchDirectory Help > Creating New Tasks > How to Run
How to Run
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Here you select how watchDirectory should run.
I will start this task manually
When this option is selected, the watchDirectory task will never automatically start.
From the startup menu...
These 2 options will automatically start this task when a user is logged into Windows.
Run this task when the computer boots. The task will run even if nobody is logged in.
Please note that the task will run as the "LocalSystem" user by default. The LocalSystem user
has a lot of privileges on the current computer, but not on the network.
If this task will be accessing network drives, you will need to change the user account for this service.
Press the Windows Services button (or press CTRL+2) to change the user for the configured service. The name of the service to change
is watchDirectory:<task-name>, where task-name is the name you gave this task on the
name & description page.
Service automatically starts
If this option is selected, the service will automatically start when the system boots. If it is not selected, the
start type of this service will be "On Demand".
Hide the Run Windows
If you are not running this task as a Windows Service, you can check this option to
prevent the watchDirectory window from showing.
Keep running when user is logging off (only available in the Professional edition of watchDirectory)
If you select any of the above "how to run" options, the task will stop when a user logs off from Windows.
Select this option to ignore the logoff event that Windows sends to this task.
xxx seconds delay on startup
This instructs watchDirectory to wait a number of seconds before starting to monitor the directory.