How to auto-start WSL during Windows startup, and run services (e.g. cron) in WSL2?

Ran sudo visudo. Add this line:

ALL ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/local/etc/start_services.sh

Create file /usr/local/etc/start_services.sh

touch /usr/local/etc/start_services.sh
chmod go-rwx /usr/local/etc/start_services.sh
chown root:root /usr/local/etc/start_services.sh

In the file, run the services needed:
```
#!/usr/bin/env sh

service cron start
```

In ~/.zprofile (or other profile scripts of your favourite shell). Add these lines:

service cron status >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
  echo 'Services have not started. Starting services now'
  sudo /usr/local/etc/start_services.sh
}

Press Window+R, run shell:startup

Create a file named start-wsl.cmd. Add these lines:

@echo off

echo Starting WSL...
wsl -e echo "WSL Started"

echo Starting services...
C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe -c "sudo /usr/local/etc/start_services.sh"

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