How can we launch Task Manager at Startup in Windows 8?

Question

I want to be able to have the Task Manager start minimized in the SysTray when I start/log into  Windows. I've been doing this since at least Windows XP, and maybe back to 2000 and NT4.
There is a good discussion on this at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0065fc23-2578-4165-8f38-c22675ae33ad/run-the-task-manager-on-startup-how?forum=w8itproinstall
The conclusion appears to be that this can't be done. Is this true?
I understand the problem -- TaskManager wants to run with Admin rights if launched from an Admin account. But what if I just want to run it without admin rights, just like it would launch if my account were not an admin account, is that possible? Perhaps
one of the command line switches? I realize that would sacrifice some of the data, like HD usage, but that's OK. I just want the task list and the CPU usage graph. Ideally, like in Windows 7, there would be an option to "Show tasks for all users"
which I could then manually elevate the Task Manager to have admin-level access, but it's OK if it doesn't at launch.
Thanks,
Colin
Colin

Answer 1

You can launch Task Manager as an administrator by scheduling it to run as a
task upon user log on via Task Scheduler and to run with elevated permissions and/or Administrator credentials.
That sort-of worked. However, the CPU usage icon in the systray didn't appear unless I closed and manually re-opened the Task Manager, which actually adds a step at every startup versus just opening it manually.
Strangely, it seems if I add two Task Managers to start under the Task Scheduler (something I did by accident during my experimentation), the icon does appear, but clearly having 2 instances of Task Manager running at the same time is not appropriate either.
Is there a way to launch it from the Task Scheduler at startup/login, as you suggested, such that the CPU usage icon appears in the systray? Maybe it's just a question of getting the right settings in the Task Scheduler?
Colin