We have a program that, due to memory leaks in some of the screens, doesn't exit cleanly when the user quits. The problem is that this blocks the normal logoff procedure – you select logout and a few processes disappear but the user doesn't actually log off.
Since I'm unable to fix the program, I thought I'd use a script run at logoff to kill the process. I've verified the script kills the process if I run it by double clicking and have added the script to Windows Settings -> Scripts -> Logoff on my machine in gpedit.
Unfortunately it seems that the logoff scripts don't get run until all the processes have died, so it never runs.
Is there a way to make the logoff scripts run at an earlier point in the process? Or is there a better approach to the issue?
Best Answer
Have you tried the registry setting under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop AutoEndTasks set to 1? If that works you will not need the script.