programs in start up folder sometimes do not start at login

[Guest]

Running Windows 2K Pro in development environment. We use 2 batch files in
the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder to
be started every time a user logs in. Usually this works fine but we've
noticed that occasionally a batch file will not start at log in. This
happens on different machines at different times. We've been unable to
consistently reproduce the problem. Need ideas why this happens, how to fix
it or troubleshoot further.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Running Windows 2K Pro in development environment. We use 2 batch files in
the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder to
be started every time a user logs in. Usually this works fine but we've
noticed that occasionally a batch file will not start at log in. This
happens on different machines at different times. We've been unable to
consistently reproduce the problem. Need ideas why this happens, how to fix
it or troubleshoot further.

Before you can fix the problem, you must make sure that
it exists. I recommend that you modify your two batch
files as follows:

Batch file 1:
@echo off
echo %date% %time% Start of %0 > c:\test1.log
echo User=%UserName%, Path=%path% >> c:\test1.log
c:\Tools\YourFirstTask.exe 1>>c:\test1.log 2>c:\test1.err
echo ErrorLevel of c:\Tools\YourFirstTask.exe=%ErrorLevel% >> c:\test1.log
echo %date% %time% End of task >> c:\test1.log

Batch file 2:
@echo off
echo %date% %time% Start of %0 > c:\test2.log
echo User=%UserName%, Path=%path% >> c:\test2.log
c:\Tools\YourSecondTask.exe 1>>c:\test2.log 2>c:\test2.err
echo ErrorLevel of c:\Tools\YourFirstTask.exe=%ErrorLevel% >> c:\test2.log
echo %date% %time% End of task >> c:\test2.log

Now run your system until you think one of the batch files
failed to run, then examine c:\test1.log, test1.err, test2.log, test2.err.
It is likely that they contain the information that lets you resolve
your problem.