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[Arjun]

Hi,
I am using Imdisk to mount a disk image in LiveXP. And I often forget to un-mount the image before shutdown. I hope it won't cause any trouble. But for some other reasons I want to execute a command when I press the shutdown button.
On googling, I found that my task was very easy using the group policy editor. Unfortunately, LiveXP doesn't have gpedit.msc. Is there any other way to run a batch file when I give the shutdown command or include group policy to LiveXP.

[was_jaclaz]

What you might be missing is that gpedit.msc is nothing but a tool, an editor.

On a "normal" XP, what it actually does is, provided you added your script (myscript.cmd) in:
%SystemRoot%\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown

to write a Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\State\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown\0\0
With contents:

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\State\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown\0\0]
"Script"="myscript.cmd"
"Parameters"=""
"ExecTime"=hex(b):00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

Point is that LiveXP is NOT XP, it is a PE.

I don't think that the GroupPolicy is effective in it.

I guess that on a PE the methods discussed here:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15987
are the only viable ones, cannot say how they would apply to LiveXP....

jaclaz

[was_JFX]

Well not a good solution, but may usefull

Put a batch file on desktop and use this one to shutdown.

CODE

start /w imdisk /u blabla
rundll32 msgina,ShellShutdownDialog

rem If themeing script is used, use this one
rem rundll32 pegina,ShellShutdownDialog

[Arjun]

@jaclaz
Thanks for Ur reply.
I went through the 911cd.net forum. Its based on XPE and they used Nu2menu.xml to configure the shutdown process. It cannot be used for my situation.

@JFX
Your batch command works fine. But I still need to run the batch file every-time when I shutdown.

I still have hope that there is a way execute a command before shutdown.

[was_jaclaz]

I still have hope that there is a way execute a command before shutdown.

The modified gina is probably the way to try.

Beware it is a slippery path to take.

Some places to start:
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~frink/...e09/readme.html
http://www.pgina.org/

On the other hand, which shell are you using?
What is the actual action you perform for shutting down?

jaclaz

[Arjun]

Some places to start:
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~frink/...e09/readme.html
http://www.pgina.org/

The newGINA method was quit interesting. It do have a option to run script at shutdown. But it didn't work in my XP. Anyway, I am using explorer as shell and it uses PEloader. Also am using XP themes script. GINA used in LiveXP is PEgina.dll
Is there any function included in pegina itself so that we can run script before it shutdowns the system.