The trick is that you need to tell explorer to reread the registry settings.
Here is a snippet from a vbscript that will redirect the My Documents to a
network drive after the user is logged in. Watch out for the wrapping. The
trick is the rundll command that forces explorer to reread the user portion of
the registry. You should be able to modify this to work with your batch file.
Option Explicit
Dim oNet, oShell
Set oNet = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oNet.MapNetworkDrive "U:", "\\server\HomeFolders\" & oNet.UserName, True
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders\Personal", "U:\My Documents", "REG_SZ"
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders\Personal", "U:\My Documents", "REG_SZ"
oShell.Run oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe
user32, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ,1 ,True")
Mike Wiebke
Rapid Fire Solutions
----- Original Message ----
From: IS Technical <[email protected]>
To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 3:05:05 PM
Subject: Changing MY DOSS location using script or batch file after log in
Anyone know if it possible to change the location of MY DOCUMENTS on-the-fly
after a user logs in using a batch file or script?
This is for a Windows XP Pro machine running on a network with no DC.
I've tried importing the relevant reg keys from a script but this doesn't
seem to work.
Thanks..
Regards,
Charles
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