How to run .exe file on startup on gcp windows instance

Question

I am having a VM, windows instance (GCE) on google cloud platform. I want to run a program(.exe) every time at the start of the instance.

I am able to run the file by putting it in the startup folder. but I want to run it using startup script as suggested by google here: running startup scripts on a google compute engine

Answer 1

To run .exe on GCP when Windows VM instance start/restart.

1. Click edit on VM instance
2. Expand Management, security, disks, networking, sole tenancy section
3. In the Metadata section, provide windows-startup-script-cmd as the metadata key.
4. In the Value box, provide /path/to/exe-file