Advice Request Most convenient VPN during Windows startup on non-admin account

[Locust]

I've recently converted to using a standard user account, and it seems that it's basically impossible to get Private Internet Access configured to startup automatically, and even manually starting it myself I need to go through the UAC prompt and enter the admin PIN. Or if it is possible, their own support staff don't know how to get it going automatically on a non-admin account.

So, PIA has been great, but with the ever increasing sophistication of malware, we're locking down our laptops further, and are looking for a new VPN (or way to configure PIA, if you know something their help desk doesn't, I don't know how well trained they are). Criteria that are sought:
-Ability to get it going automatically with startup on non-admin account, without UAC prompt
-Either through VPN client's native functionality, or firewall rules or something, disallow system from connecting to internet except through VPN.
-Encrypt all traffic to VPN servers.

What options are there?

 

[Kate_L]

You can do it with "Windows Scheduled Task" to make the VPN start with non-admin account.

 

[Locust]

Have been trying to use task scheduler for this purpose, but haven't been able to get it to work. In the last run result column of the task list, it claims it executed the task successfully, but it's not working. To create it, I'm running task scheduler as an admin, and the task is to run pia_manager at log on of any user with a one minute delay.

 

[Locust]

Anybody? Surely I'm not the first person here with the idea to use a standard user account and automated VPN at startup.