Guest gary.hampson@gmail.com Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Hello, I would like to start my broadband wireless and my VPN software prior to entering my windows logon so that I can connect to my corporate network and have all my network settings applied (drive mappings, etc.). I tried entering the path to those programs in HKLM\Software \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and it doesn't seem to work. I even tried creating a scheduled task to start on system startup but that didn't work either. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Cheers, Gary Hampson
Guest Kelly Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: Program startup prior to Logon RunServices and RunServicesOnce are run in the background when the logon dialog box first appears or at this stage of the boot process if there is no logon. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179365 -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm Is it October already? Either way, Happy Birthday if today is your birthday! <gary.hampson@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186676412.228245.76710@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com... > Hello, > > I would like to start my broadband wireless and my VPN software prior > to entering my windows logon so that I can connect to my corporate > network and have all my network settings applied (drive mappings, > etc.). I tried entering the path to those programs in HKLM\Software > \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and it doesn't seem to work. I > even tried creating a scheduled task to start on system startup but > that didn't work either. Any suggestions would be welcomed. > > > Cheers, > Gary Hampson >
Guest Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] Posted August 10, 2007 Posted August 10, 2007 Re: Program startup prior to Logon HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run is only processed after a user actually logs on. Your VPN software should have its own option to enable it to run at logon. What wireless utility are running? In XP there's no real reason for it. XP supports Wireless Zero Configuration, natively. If you use that instead of some 3rd party utility, your wireless connection will be available before you logon, so you can log into your VPN server before logging into Windows. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. <gary.hampson@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186676412.228245.76710@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com... > Hello, > > I would like to start my broadband wireless and my VPN software prior > to entering my windows logon so that I can connect to my corporate > network and have all my network settings applied (drive mappings, > etc.). I tried entering the path to those programs in HKLM\Software > \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and it doesn't seem to work. I > even tried creating a scheduled task to start on system startup but > that didn't work either. Any suggestions would be welcomed. > > > Cheers, > Gary Hampson >
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