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From: John John - MVP on 5 Jun 2010 07:58
This is really a question that you should pose to Cisco.

John

George wrote:
> I am building a series of scripts (basically batch files) to automate
> certain tasks in Windows XP. There are several scripts I need to
> run,and often multiple reboots are needed. So in order to continue
> after each reboot, I simply use the RunOnce command (HKLM/Software/
> Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnce) to run the next script after
> a reboot has occurred.
>
> I do this by having a command in each script that just imports a reg
> file into the registry which is the command for the RunOnce command.
> Sounds simply enough.
>
> The problem is when I install the Cisco VPN client (our company
> requires us to use version 4.8.01.0300) at the end of the install
> (right before the client install forces a reboot) it actually executes
> the script in the RunOnce command in the registry!
>
> Why does it do this?
>
> This is a real problem for me, because it causes the next script
> (which was supposed to run AFTER the reboot) to run now, and this
> messes a lot of things up.
>
> I even tried to put the next script into the Start Menu / Startup
> folder instead, and it launches that too!
>
> I found what I thought would be a solution, where I edited the file
> OEM.INI (inside the the install folder for the VPN Client) and if you
> edit the line that says "Reboot=2" and change it to "Reboot=1" it
> suppresses the reboot. By doing this, it doesn't launch stuff in
> RunOnce or the Startup folder, but now the stupid program about
> halfway thru the install stops responding! So now I have to manually
> pull up task manager, perform an END TASK and then I can reboot the
> computer. This kind of defeats the purpose of an automatic script :)
>
> I can replicate this problem on over 20 different computers (laptops,
> desktops, different brands, models, etc...) So I know the problem
> isn't a certain driver from a certain computer.
>
> Does anybody have an idea what I can do?
>
> Is there a way to get this app to install and not reboot (and not
> crash)? If I could get that to work, then I could just initiate my
> own reboot (via the shutdown.exe command), and that should work. Or
> if the client wants to reboot itself, thats OK too, as long as it
> stops launching what it finds in RunOnce and Startup!
>
>
>
>
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