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Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/27/2007 4:13:32 AM

ZoSoSwiM

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Hello everyone! I would greatly appreciate some help..

I need a refresh script to run after windows finishes loading the background.
I have active desktop running on my domain for a couple different groups.
Many times it isn't displayed properly until a screen refresh takes place.

Currently I have this as a code.

WScript.Sleep 10000
Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.AppActivate "Program Manager"
WshShell.SendKeys "{F5}"
Set WshShell = Nothing
Wscript.Quit

I would like group policy to load a script when the user logs on and have the timer wait to refresh the desktop. Is this possible? If this can be done better another way please let me know. I'm relatively new at scripting and such so any help is much appreciated!!

-Jon

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/27/2007 6:08:00 AM

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Try this with your timing code:

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/27/2007 11:51:59 PM

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Should I just paste that above my refresh code? I tried and it give me a runtime error on oshell.

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/28/2007 8:37:35 AM

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you need to create the oshell object...
the full code should read...

basicaly the command.... RUNDLL32.EXE user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ......is telling windows to reprocess the HKEY_CURRENT_USER section of the registry.

I have found however that both method's (this one and your send keys) doesn't allways work... for this exact task.. haven't found a 100% fool proof way yet...
but give it a try anyway may work... depending on your machine build, registry permissions, group policies etc.

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/28/2007 8:42:27 AM

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Thanks for replying.
I had yanked the code from a script and its been a while since i looked at it!

On my work system, the above code freezes the machine.
On my home pc it works fine.....

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/28/2007 8:57:51 AM

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just noticed... dont need this line either ... :)

quote:

Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/29/2007 1:20:19 AM

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So if I set this script as a logon script it will force the refresh? or should I start it a different way.

currently all of my classroom and lab computers are frozen with deepfreeze so putting a startup script on each computer is a bit of a pain. Any ideas?

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/29/2007 1:36:51 AM

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Well, if you want it running on all computers on the domain ... your best bet is to put the script in the NETLOGON folder on the DC and setting it as either a startup script for all / some users w/ GP ... or putting its each individual user's startup script on there AD objects

Something you also might want to look at is having the script run as a service ... which would keep it out of the way of the user, however this may cause it to try and refresh the desktop of one of the service accounts instead of the users ... but still ... deff something to look into

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RE: Refresh Desktop delay script - 8/29/2007 4:07:04 AM

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Thanks a lot everyone! I'll be trying a few things with this asap. I'll let you all know how it turns out!

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