How do I force Windows 7 startup to finish before logon is allowed?
I am trying to get my Windows 7 workstations to wait until all the Startup policies have finished before allowing the user to logon. My Windows 7 workstations don't behave this way. To test this I've created a group policy that runs the following script:
Dim objFSO
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.Fi
Dim objOutput
Set objOutput = objFSO.CreateTextFile("C:\
objOutput.WriteLine(Now() & " - Sleeping for 5 minutes.")
WScript.Sleep 300000
objOutput.WriteLine(Now() & " - Finished sleeping.")
objOutput.Close
When the workstation is started, the logon screen is presented immediately. If I log on and check the file that the script creates, only the first line appears. The second line appears 5 minutes later.
How can I force Windows 7 workstations to wait until all startup wscripts are finished before allowing a user to logon? I've enabled the 'Always wait for network at computer startup and logon", which didn't help.
Dim objFSO
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.Fi
Dim objOutput
Set objOutput = objFSO.CreateTextFile("C:\
objOutput.WriteLine(Now() & " - Sleeping for 5 minutes.")
WScript.Sleep 300000
objOutput.WriteLine(Now() & " - Finished sleeping.")
objOutput.Close
When the workstation is started, the logon screen is presented immediately. If I log on and check the file that the script creates, only the first line appears. The second line appears 5 minutes later.
How can I force Windows 7 workstations to wait until all startup wscripts are finished before allowing a user to logon? I've enabled the 'Always wait for network at computer startup and logon", which didn't help.
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Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization feature
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305293
Still applies to Win7, also helps to explain why the behavior is the way it is.....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305293
Still applies to Win7, also helps to explain why the behavior is the way it is.....
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It turns out that Jmoody10 was on the right track. In Windows 7, you need to set 'Run Startup Scripts Asynchronously' to disabled to get startup scripts to run synchronously. Previous versions of Windows ran startup scripts synchronously by default, but Windows 7 runs them asynchronously by default. Setting 'Computer Configuration->Policies->A
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