Vince’s Tech Tips - Domain Login Scripts in Win 7

Vince Meek, one of our professional Network Engineers here at Alliance Technologies, offers some friendly tech tips to help your IT Department and general users alike.

Getting Domain Login Scripts to Fire on Windows 7

NOTE: This How-To involves accessing and editing your registry. Please take all proper precautions to safeguard your system before making these changes .If you’re not comfortable editing your registry, please ask a professional to help you.

One thing Windows 7 users will notice upon joining their machine to a Windows Active Directory Domain is that any login scripts specified in Group Policy won’t run automatically. If you manually kick them off, they function, but out of the box they won’t fire at login. To fix this:

1. Edit the Registry

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

Here you want to create a DWORD entry named “EnableLinkedConnections” and set the value to 1

2. Reboot

Reboot for the changes to take effect. As a side note, I’ve heard that disabling User Account Control will also allow the scripts to run automatically, however with your machine/network’s security in mind, I wouldn’t recommend it. UAC behaves itself far better in 7 than it did in Vista, and it’s better if you can make things work without shutting this off.