Need Help with Logout Button

[Guest]

Originally Posted in Windows XP Customizing newsgroup (no activity):

Hi, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am looking for a way to change
what the logoff button does. I need it to open a file (that I made) which
will close off explorer.exe and then open up a program that I made that acts
as a logon-type device. I am basically creating my own networking software
that will connect to a specific share based on user credentials. I found a
method of having it come up before explorer does, and having explorer delayed
until the logon. I have also found a way to map the folders (i.e My
Documents) to a network share without mapping the drive, and apply group
policy settings upon logon (instantly) using the registry. The only problem
that I have is when I currently log off, it logs off to the Windows XP login
screen. If I could change this, I would basically have my job complete.
Please if you know any way that would help me solve this problem, that would
be sooooo awesome. Thanks in advance.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Originally Posted in Windows XP Customizing newsgroup (no activity):

Hi, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am looking for a way to change
what the logoff button does. I need it to open a file (that I made) which
will close off explorer.exe and then open up a program that I made that acts
as a logon-type device. I am basically creating my own networking software
that will connect to a specific share based on user credentials. I found a
method of having it come up before explorer does, and having explorer delayed
until the logon. I have also found a way to map the folders (i.e My
Documents) to a network share without mapping the drive, and apply group
policy settings upon logon (instantly) using the registry. The only problem
that I have is when I currently log off, it logs off to the Windows XP login
screen. If I could change this, I would basically have my job complete.
Please if you know any way that would help me solve this problem, that would
be sooooo awesome. Thanks in advance.

Instead of using the Logoff button to log off, you could create
a "Logoff" shortcut on the desktop that points to your very own
batch file. The batch performs your various required actions and
as a last command it invokes "shutdown.exe" with the appropriate
switches.

 

[Guest]

I need it to actually not "log off", but just shut-down explorer and open up
my program lol... I could make a batch file to run "taskkill" for
explorer.exe, and have the other running processes terminated, and then run
my login screen. The only thing that I need to do is re-route the "logoff"
button to that batch file.