Firstly I thought this could be a brilliant topic to start, especially for system administrators.

So if you have any great startup scripts, why don't you post them and explain how they work. You can always rename certain machines to protect your privacy.

The other reason for starting this post is I am trying to create a script but am not having much luck.

Basically I am wanting to run a script that will change the Default Homepage (URL) to a certain site on all the machines in our network, this script will need to be implemented when windows starts.

I have found this script on the net but I am unable to get it to work, basically nothing changes. It is a VBscript file but I don't mind using any kind of script file as long as it works.

Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page", "REG_SZ","http://www.pchelpforum.com"
Set objShell = Nothing

When you try to run this script,
Before th user logs on or via a script after the user logged on.

I see that the rekey modifies the HKCU, this will only work after the user is logged in (Or via login script) AND the user has the rights to change this value in the registry.

Greetzzz

Thanks for that, I figured out a much easier way to do things and that was through Active Directory.

Amazing some of the things you can change ! :-P