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Run program on shutdown

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Name: Erik
Date: November 18, 2001 at 07:33:01 Pacific
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I want a program to be run everytime I shutdown my computer. How do I configure XP to do this?



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Name: Big Juju
Date: November 18, 2001 at 09:51:24 Pacific
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Open the Group Policy snap-in (start - run - gpedit.msc). Under computer configuration - windows setting - scripts, right-click on shutdown, select properties, and add the name of the program you want to run. In general, a script is a batch file or javascript or vb script file, but I've seen windows allow .exe files in some cases as well. Haven't tried it in this particular case, but if it won't allow you to run an executable directly, just create a batch file to run it from, and run the batch file at shutdown...


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