HWInfo Not Starting on Startup

Hmmm I'm going to have to play with that. Not sure what most people are doing but in my case the app has to run under a user with limited access. I have to look at all the Task Scheduler tabs again and figure out what I'm missing :-/
 
HWiNFO needs to be run under an Administrator account, there's no other way around.

Hmmm strange this is a big puzzle now. It is working on the first PC as a standard user as a desktop icon but I just enter my admin credentials at the UAC prompt. I think I right clicked on the app and chose run-as-administrator when I originally installed it being that it 'has to' run when the standard user logs in.

I just tried installing it on a standard user on a new Windows 10 install and yes it said I had to install it as admin which works fine but now it doesn't run as the standard user as the previous PC does. :-/
 
I think this problem has reared its ugly head again. I'm getting the "2147943140" error in Task Scheduler, regardless of the flag to run with highest privileges.

Task Scheduler has no problem running cmd.exe elevated this way though, so my workaround for now is to start HWiNFO64.EXE through a batch file that runs as an elevated task, lol.

Btw, I tried rolling back to 8.10, but it's the same as on 8.12, so I think it's Windows doing it.
 
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