I am volunteering at a charity that has a small network on XP. When the PCs
start up they execute the cmd.exe and do redundant NET USE commands trying to
map to drives on a server that was removed some months ago. Is there a way
to edit the startup to remove these redundant statements. Which file is it,
where is it located and how can I safely edit it. Any help gratefully
received.

EdMcL wrote:
> I am volunteering at a charity that has a small network on XP.
> When the PCs start up they execute the cmd.exe and do redundant NET
> USE commands trying to map to drives on a server that was removed
> some months ago. Is there a way to edit the startup to remove
> these redundant statements. Which file is it, where is it located
> and how can I safely edit it. Any help gratefully received.

Depends on how they were setup.

In the Startup folder?
RUN registry entry?
Is this a domain?
Are the scripts unique to each user?

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Thanks Shenan. I will have to get back to you in a couple of days as not
there again until Friday. I thought that the script I saw executing was
before the boot up had reached the point of presenting the logon screen, but
I could be mistaken. About 10 computers are joined together in a network. I
have only just started there and will try and find out more information about
how it is all configured.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> EdMcL wrote:
> > I am volunteering at a charity that has a small network on XP.
> > When the PCs start up they execute the cmd.exe and do redundant NET
> > USE commands trying to map to drives on a server that was removed
> > some months ago. Is there a way to edit the startup to remove
> > these redundant statements. Which file is it, where is it located
> > and how can I safely edit it. Any help gratefully received.
>
> Depends on how they were setup.
>
> In the Startup folder?
> RUN registry entry?
> Is this a domain?
> Are the scripts unique to each user?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
> .
>