Here is a good resource for all of those rundll32 commands. I'm sure this is where I found it originally. http://dx21.com/coding/libraries/rundll32/default.aspx
Mike Wiebke Rapid Fire Solutions ________________________________ From: Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 4:58:07 PM Subject: Re: Changing MY DOSS location using script or batch file after log in Nice rundll32 use! -- ME2 On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Mike Wiebke <[email protected]> wrote: 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 --- Charles Figueiredo PhD Integrated Solutions - Enhancing Small Business Systems --- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
