NT Admin Tip #340: WrapUp executes programs when you logoff

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Tessler's Nifty Tools includes WrapUp. Just as Windows executes all programs in its StartUp folder when it is first starting up, WrapUp automatically executes all programs in its ShutDown folder or LogOff folder right before Windows exits or logs off. WrapUp is not a scripting program. It only executes your programs. Your own programs must either have command line options or built-in scripting to direct it to perform the actions that you want. If your program does not have one of these features, consider purchasing any one of several script/batch tools for Windows, create a script to command your program to do whatever you want, and lastly place the script into your ShutDown or LogOff folder for WrapUp to execute.

WrapUp's shutdown behavior is highly configurable: When WrapUp detects that you have issued a command to exit Windows, its default behavior is to ask you if you want to terminate all currently executing programs and then execute all programs in WrapUp's ShutDown folder. Once you are done working with the ShutDown folder's programs, you issue another shut down command. This time Windows will exit since WrapUp has already executed its programs.

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