Comments on: How to run a program only once per new user logon http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-run-a-program-only-once-per-new-user-logon/ Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: kfaganjr http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-run-a-program-only-once-per-new-user-logon/#comment-87217 kfaganjr Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:25:25 +0000 #comment-87217 This is an old question so I hope you figured it out already but I came across it looking for a solution for myself and thought it may help anyone else still looking. I found this knowledge base on Microsoft that should help. It sounds like the keys are deleted before the os get’s to a point that will allow a script to run, so you need to prefix it with an ! to make it work correctly.

By default, the value of a RunOnce key is deleted before the command line is run. You can prefix a RunOnce value name with an exclamation point (!) to defer deletion of the value until after the command runs. Without the exclamation point prefix, if the RunOnce operation fails the associated program will not be asked to run the next time you start the computer.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376977%28VS.85%29.aspx

]]> By: shellie http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-run-a-program-only-once-per-new-user-logon/#comment-49559 shellie Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:22:40 +0000 #comment-49559 Thanks for the reply, is this the key you suggest using:

HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunOnce
If so I did try that and it did not run. I created a value called test.bat and just pointed it to c:test.bat.

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