The Windows 7 logoff is so fast that a critical logoff script is failing. The win7 machines are joined to an AD and the scripts are run via a GPO. The scripts live on the local machines. (batch script) The script was simple as pie: ***** c:\Windows\our-little-program.exe ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 ***** This script requires network to be active, and needs ~5 seconds to complete. We used to slow down logoffs on XP/Vista by simply putting "ping -n 5 127.0.0.1" into the batch script, the result of that ping is a 5 second wait before the logoff continues. 5 seconds was always enough time for the script to finish. I'm almost certain this script worked fine in Windows 7 early versions. But with SP1, that all changed. Now the logoff process shuts everything down immediately, does not wait for the ping to finish, and the script dies as a result. I've searched around, found no insight into how to actually delay the logoff process. I did find a "solution" online, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ar/winserverpowershell/thread/2d72ab03-3db1-40f3-a8c2-f7055797a0e8, but that doesn't work for us because we are not invoking a web browser in the script. We are simply invoking an executable program. Thanks for any ideas.

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