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windows-xpregistrylogoutrunonce

How to run my program on before logout on windows XP?

I am looking for an inverse version of "RunOnceEx".

RunOnceEx does run some program, before the user's shell(desktop&taskbar) start. The login progress will not continue before the runonceex complete.

I want to do exact the same but on user logout. When she/he logout, all running program shutdown, leaving shell(desktop&taskbar), then ""I wish my program will be execute this moment"", finally logout.

I think it is possible because the "mobsync.exe" is doing that. But I cannot find where and how to do it.

Solution

  • To run this only for the current user, you can use WMI to get an information when a shutdown/logout occurs.

    Either you write a small C# (or any other language that can use WMI) application or vbs script to listen on the Win32_ComputerShutdownEvent WMI event.

    An example C# app can be found here in this question: Get Log off event from system