Reboot on logout

[Guest]

Dear All,

I hope someone can offer some advice. I have about 4,000 PCs running XP SP1
and SP2 connected to a Windows 2003 domain. I would like to be able to make
them shutdown or reboot when people logout. I thought this would be easy -
just create a logout script and put the code to do a shutdown in it. If I
just run the code while I am logged in it works but if I run it while logging
out it doesn't. Somehow, it knows a logout is in progress and ignores the
shutdown command. I have tried all sorts of things but none of them work. I
tried scheduling a reboot by hand (shutdown.exe /r /t 30) before I logged
out and that worked but if I do that within the logout script it also doesn't
work. Does anyone know a way round this?

Best wishes....
Colin Bruce

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I don't know if this will help Colin but try using PsShutdown instead of
shutdown to see if that works or not as it has worked for me in situations
where logoff or shutdown did not. It is free from SysInternals/Microsoft.

Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html

 

[Guest]

An alternative might be to remove the logout options, there are registry
keys that do this. Then, the user has to select powerdown (or use your
bespoke command)

 

[Guest]

... after a spot of grepping-around in dusty programming archives:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer,StartMenuLogoff,1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer,NoLogoff,1

I think these should work as HKLM keys too, though not tested.

 

[Guest]

Dear Steven,

Thanks for the reply and suggestion - it worked perfectly. Not only did it
solve the problem I described but it solves anothed that I was about to start
wondering how to do and one that a colleague was wondering about as well
which I didn't even know about.

Best wishes and thanks again.....
Colin

 

[Guest]

Dear Ian,

Thanks for the reply and the information. Steven's suggestion of using
psshutdown worked perfectly but the registry keys you mentioned will be very
useful for something else I need to do.

Bets wishes and thanks again.....
Colin

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Great! Thanks for letting us know that it worked as you wanted.

Steve