Re: Problem running a script on startup

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 07:43:35 -0600

Use the Group policy editor
%windir%\system32\gpedit.msc Computer Configuration\Windows
Settings\Scripts\Startup 

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"Allan Cady" wrote:
|I have a script (vbs) that needs to run on system startup, regardless
| of whether any user logs on.  I thought I knew how to do this, but I'm
| not seeing the result I expected.
|
| I added a registry value in
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, with
| the correct command to run the script.  But when I restart the
| machine, as far as I can tell, the script isn't getting run until I
| log on as an interactive user.  (I can tell whether it has run without
| logging on.)
|
| Does anyone have any idea why it's doing this, and more importantly,
| what can I do that will make the script run without logging on?
|
| I'm doing this on Windows 2000 Server.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Allan

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