I have run into a problem which I was hoping some smarter people could help me out with.

Currently I have a windows server that I have TeamSpeak and BF2CC to run on startup via a shortcut in the Startup folder. When the server is restarted however this does not happen. Both these programs only startup after connectiong to Remote Desktop, I don't do anything for these things to startup I simply login and eveything starts up. Does anyone know why I have to connect to Remote Desktop before these two programs will startup?

because the "startup folder" is just used for starting programs on the actual "login" not startup.

I order to have a program run automatically when the server is started, it needs to be a service.

Fire Daemon is a nice way to accomplish this.

http://www.firedaemon.com/

Or you can use some microsoft programs to create these services. Microsoft has an article on this here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

I believe ServerDoc will do this on startup but am uncertain.

Another thing you can consider is creating a .bat file with the path to the game exe with the command line in it. Create a scheduled task for that .bat file and have it occur when the computer starts up.

:: thinks back to the autoexec.bat days ::

lol autoexec.


LOAD MEM=HIGH

lol