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I've built a Flow that runs OK from within the Power Automate Desktop app.

I want to have this Flow automatically run every time the PC reboots.

I created a BAT file with the command:

START "Power Automate Desktop" "Name of Flow"

But this gives an error and does not run. What am I doing wrong?

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I don't believe there are any plans at the moment to support running PADs scheduled from Windows 10 other than using PowerAutomate for which you need a license for.

When you run a PAD flow something similar to the following is called:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Power Automate Desktop\PAD.Runtime.Robot.exe" --path "C:\Users\DamienWork\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power Automate Desktop\Console\Workspace\827e4538-9651-4e19-a8c4-189295c13ae6\package" --instanceId 5ec585ad1a29444a9218e4648f32ca33 --varPreviewChars 128 --varPreviewLines 5

This includes the GUID of your flow and an instanceId which must be some sort of authentication with the cloud.

The feature might arrive eventually but for now, if you want an attended PAD, you have to trigger it from PowerAutomate or run it manually from the PAD console.

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Cheers,
Damien