Chained AutoLogon Sequence

Published on January 10, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Scripting
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Someone recently asked if we could add a new feauture to AutoLogon that would allow several macros to be scheduled one after the other without logging off in between.  At present AutoLogon works at the macro level.  It logs in, runs the macro and then logs out again.  What if you want to schedule several macros, one after the other, and just log in before the first and log out again after the last?  Well one way you could do that right now is to use the Macro> function.  Create one main macro which calls all the other macros, one after the other, with the macro command.  Then schedule this main macro with AutoLogon enabled.  The macro would look something like:

Macro>%SCRIPT_DIR%\macroA.scp
Macro>%SCRIPT_DIR%\macroB.scp
Macro>%SCRIPT_DIR%\macroC.scp

If you need a delay between each one you can add a Wait> command.

We’ll look at adding more AutoLogon options in future.  Our priority at the moment is getting AutoLogon to work with Windows Vista which uses a different logon mechanism.  We will have AutoLogon working on Vista by the time Vista is officially released.