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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="108.236.230.124"
+ subject="nssm notes"
+ date="2014-06-10T18:16:00Z"
+ content="""
+* Have to install and run nssm as an administrator. (It may be possible to get it to run as a non-administrator user if the admin sets it up. I haven't succeeded.)
+* `nssm install git-annex`
+* Set path to git-annex, and set Arguments to: `assistant --autostart`
+* In Exit tab, change Restart to \"No action\"
+* In Process tab, uncheck \"Console window\"
+* Repositories to start up have to be listed in `C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\.config\git-annex\autostart`
+  (rather than the normal user home directory)
+
+After all that it works! Even opening git-annex webapp from the menu avoids the console window (it appears briefly but then goes away).
+
+Most of this setup could be boiled down to a command line invocation, which git-annex could do at install time. However, it would still need to be run by the admin. Luckily the git-annex installation process already only works as admin (and I guess I could close the bug about that if it gets a legitimate reason to need admin..)
+
+Some changes in git-annex would improve this. 
+
+* Maybe have a way to specify the user that git-annex is running on behalf of, and look in that user's home directory, rather than LocalService. (Other parts of the webapp UI, like adding a new repository, also use LocalService as the home directory, which is confusing).
+* Starting the webapp for the first time to create a repository still opens a console window, so find a workaround for this.
+"""]]