running a python script from startup to shutdown

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I am using python 3. On windows 7. I recently made a python keylogger. It saves the keylogs in a text file as i type and upon pressing WIDOWS Key it sends the text from the textfile to my gmail account using smtplib. I have to manually start the python file and it gets quite boring!

What my question is that is there any way to run that keylogger script on startup (without manually putting it in the startup folder -- because i want the script to do everything itself), and then to quickly close the script as soon as the user presses the shutdown button (and delay the shutdown time somehow). The reason i want this is because i belive that a keylogger must be hidden from the user not to include that it must be hidden from the antivirus ;)

i have tested this with python task scheduler but it only takes time parameters (i.e. from 5:00 to 7:00) not the startup and shutdown time.

If i am to include more information on this topic that you need to solve this question i will gladly help you!

Thanks in advance

Does this answer your question? [How to start a python file while Windows starts?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4438020/how-to-start-a-python-file-while-windows-starts) — Ankit Beniwal, May 29 '20 at 07:36
Thank you very much for your time, but this is not what i am looking for i am looking for a script that runs at startup and closes itself on shutdown — huzefausama, May 29 '20 at 07:39
no id did not use it because it is not kind of hidden from the user — huzefausama, May 29 '20 at 07:44
I think he wants to use shutdown as a trigger to do some processing before shutting down. Is it @HuzefaUsama? — Ankit Beniwal, May 29 '20 at 07:50
@jizhihaoSAMA it is not true! look here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn789190(v=ws.11) — huzefausama, May 29 '20 at 08:05

running a python script from startup to shutdown

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