# Install to Windows pcs, several confusing issues **URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/install-to-windows-pcs-several-confusing-issues/5232 **Category:** Support **Created:** [July 24, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/install-to-windows-pcs-several-confusing-issues/5232 "2015-07-24T15:53:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![canton7](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/canton7/32/9528_2.png) [@canton7](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/canton7) #### Post date: [July 25, 2015, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/install-to-windows-pcs-several-confusing-issues/5232/7 "2015-07-25T08:20:35Z")
Yeah, they both take the approach of starting when a user logs in, and run as that user. This avoids a number of potentially serious security issues. It is possible to run Syncthing as a true service, see [this documentation](http://docs.syncthing.net/users/autostart.html#run-independent-of-user-login). Also read the big warning at the beginning of that section! Somewhere on the forum there are a couple of installers which set up NSSM in that way, e.g. [this one](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-windows-installer/2009). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/install-to-windows-pcs-several-confusing-issues/5232)._