runonce

问题 I'm curious to know the order of Windows startup during a user login. Does anyone know? Basically, my application was being invoked by login script that a GPO calls. While 3rd party EXE was being invoked, it was failing to start. Then, through trial and error, I found that HKCU...\RunOnce keys execute after the login script. Same result, the EXE was being called, but failing to start. What worked: updated the login script create a shortcut in the user's Startup folder. Now the EXE starts up

问题 We are a learning center and sometimes we are not able to sysprep the machines for different reasons. When I do not sysprep the machines, I end up cloning a machine 25 times with the same computername. I then have to go manually on each station and change the computername and restart them after. I was wondering if I could use a batch file or powershell script that I would do before shutting down my machine (pre-cloning). Then, on next reboot (only once) the computer would randomly change the

问题 I'm in an environment where apps in the start up menu and Run registry key wont execute anything, but RunOnce will, so I made small script to start the application I want to run on startup then re-write the registry key. However, when I login and teh script runs then exits after firing off my app and re-writing the registry key, windows seems to run it again, The scenario looks like: i login -> my script fires and loads notepad -> my script re-writes registry key -> my script exits -> windows