Hello! We often have a problem here that appears to be specific to W2K: when roaming mandatory profiles get copied to our public computers (with automatic logon and IE6 as the shell), often as not we get an error message that essentially amounts to a file name (always an IE cache file) being too long for Windows to handle over-writing. Our solution has always been to map a drive to the affected PC and manually delete the old profile, at which point the new profile then does what it's supposed to. We've tried creating a script that will take care of this, but there is an additional problem that makes this not so easy to deal with: the profile will often have a Temporary Internet Files subfolder that the system sees as being "locked" or "in use." In order to delete the folder, usually all one has to do is manually click into the folder, then back out again and it can then be deleted. Sometimes even this doesn't work and the machine needs to be rebooted, at which point the previous profile has been deleted to enough of a point where the new profile can be copied down. I have verified with a couple other folks I know that this is not a unique problem to my system.
Now, my question is, does anyone know of a way to run a batch file or application before the user profile loads? Running a logon script obviously won't work, as what I want to do is remove the existing profile before the new profile comes down. I know that there is a way to specify a program to run when Windows starts, but I'm not sure of the order in which that runs. It seems to me that it happens after the user logs on. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
