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On Jul 21 11:13, cygwin DOT 20 DOT maillinglist AT spamgourmet DOT com wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have the problem that I like to start Excel at the end of the workday from crontab. 
> 
> Cron is running under a local system account.
> 
> The problem is that excel is started but does not popup. When I change the check box "Exchange Data with Desktop" I got always the error "*** fatal error - could not load user32, Win32 error 1114" for all cronjobs.
> 
> How can I fix the problem.

See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview

Does any one of the alternative methods to switch the user context work?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd2
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd3


Corinna

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