forestalling/cancelling logoff

wolfric

I created a program that pops up as the user logs off. It's vbs and i've set it up to run as the logoff script.
Problem is that windows 7 blanks the screen. So it doesn't quite log off you just get fully black screen and the mouse. If i alt f4 out of the program that runs from the logoff script, it then goes back to logging off fine. I haven't had a chance to try this proper on xp (which is what i need to get it working on) as all i have is home edition currently with no gpedit but i assume it acts in a similar way.

The question i have is: is there anyway of stopping the screen from blanking or else cancelling it. shutdown -a doesn't seem to work but not surprisingly, i think it only works on shutdown and you cannot have a timed logout either.

I'm still looking to see if i can find any functions in api that might do it but so far no luck.

Any ideas?

Only thing i can think of is to disable logout buttons and create a batch script that's write protected that launches what i need and then logsout but i'd REALLY REALLY rather not.

JDxtra

I have never had to use a log off script before, so I am interested in knowing what you want to achieve with it. Windows 7 is geared for fast start up and shutdown times so maybe your script is calling a Windows component that has already begun to shutdown?

simoniz

interested in this one,....