Pretty simple script, it copies the settings. This is a great script for controlling the gadgets seen on a users desktop. Script example below if you want it. The problem I was having with this script was I was trying to launch the sidebar application after the update and that was causing the cmd window not to close after it launched the application.
Here is the trick to get a cmd that fails to release after launch in a batch file to actually release. Then in quotes if spaces exist the command to run.
I hope this helps some scripter out there with login scripts they are writing. Below you will find a copy of my login script to set gadgets up on Desktop when a user logs in. How to force default gadgets on a users desktop, First off to get started you need to setup a profile and launch the gadgets you want on the desktop.
Move them where you want them to be on the desktop so that they are placed in the areas you want them. We have dual monitors across our tech team so we placed all gadgets on second monitor. Now go grab the config file you just created by moving and launching the gadgets you wanted.
The default location for the gadget config file in a users profile is:. Lastly we create a batch file to recopy this file each time a user logs in and then launches the sidebar application. Copy the Settings. Then add it to your users login script active directory properties. You can also just copy and paste the lines in to an existing login script if your using them to do other things like mapping drives or printers and such. Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web.
Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher! My google-fu has failed me, results seem unrelated…. I use. In the cygwin script I used notepad. Normally when we launch a program from a batch file like below, we'll have the black windows at the background like OP said.
This was cause by Notepad running in same command prompt process. To avoid that, we can use the start command to start a separate process like this. This command is fine as long it doesn't has space in the path. To handle space in the path for just in case, we added the " quotes like this. However running this command would just start another blank command prompt.
So, to solve that, we have the command like this:. Here you can find more information about start. I am trying to open xsdk like that and it opens a separate cmd that needs to be closed and xsdk can run on its own. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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Viewed k times. Marcel Gosselin 4, 2 2 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. Possa Possa 1, 7 7 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. The Microsoft Scripting Guys 6 2. Sign in to vote. Wednesday, August 10, PM. Anyway, try this Tom Lavedas.
Tom Lavedas What? It works for my case. This has a problem in that the quotes are in the wrong place and if they are moved to properly quote the pathspec that contains a space, that part of the command line will be taken to be the title of the window.
Rather, when using a path that contains a command line delimiter, a title must be supplied can be blank. Therefore, the command must be as I showed earlier. Thursday, August 11, PM. That's just me of course Bill. ING 0. It looks very wired and I am not sure is all that necessary, and - Why some simple task must be so complicated, in fact it looks little nonsense , with this we are cheating this script and same Windows!!!
However It works!!! But can it be little easier for one simple Bach file??? Saturday, July 16, PM.
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