On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:51:14 -0700 (PDT), Mike Wiebke 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.
Many thanks Mike. I'll try it.
>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]
software.com>
>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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> Integrated Solutions - Enhancing Small Business Systems
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Regards,
Charles
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Integrated Solutions - Enhancing Small Business Systems
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