Running programs Pre Login

[Graham Mitchell]

I've been working on an image for deployment, and I have it all set up and
ready to go... We've done some final testing, and I've discovered one thing
that I need to fix on one of the local user accounts (a couple of 'net user'
commands will do the trick)... I have auto admin login set up and running,
and a RunOnce to fire off my scripts...

I've tried adding a new RunOnce key to run the commands from a batch file,
which seems to work for subsequent logins, but not the first one (it seems
that the RunOnce key isnt being processed before winlogin starts doing it's
thing.

Is there any way to run an exe (ie cmd.exe) before winlogin starts
processing?


Graham

 

[shah_boy]

Graham,
I ran into a similar problem with OSD. Some of the applications don't
like running under the NT\Authority Account and
refuse to install correctly or not at all. To work around this problem
I create a local admin account on the fly and run
a schedule task as the local admin. You could do something similar as
long as your using XP. W2k has a way to
create schedulded tasks from the GUI but it doesn't have a good way to
create it thru the cmd line. there was a application
call jt.exe or something like it years ago but I don't think it's
around any more. Good luck

-Richpo

 

[Mike Ter Louw]

Have you tried installing the autoexnt service? It will let you run a
batch file before login.