remote desktop - How to perform some action every time computer with Windows starts?

I'd like to perform some task (start a program) on a computer running Windows every time it's (re)started. It's remote computer and just placing shortcut in autostart doesn't work because it's run every time I log into using remote desktop.

How can I do it?

Answer

You can use the Windows Task Scheduler. It's been a while since I used it on XP, but in Vista and Windows 7 you can schedule a task to occur on startup. This can be a batch file, or executable.