Win7 Home Premium: replacement for gpedit?

Oh terrific. Finally, at the bottom of the page it gives the answer to Troubleshooting Home Premium:

If you are troubleshooting gpedit.msc in Windows 7 Home Premium, it does not exist; you need to upgrade to the Ultimate edition.

That certainly doesn't go far in answering the question "How do I add a shutdown script to Win7 Home Premium?".

fseal said:

You can perform the same operation using the same batch file by setting up a log off "task" in the task scheduler (Control Panel\System and Security\Schedule Tasks).

Ah! Now THAT sounds like answer I needed. Thank you!

Edit: Or maybe it isn't the answer I needed. "At shutdown" doesn't seem to be an option. Is there an event that I can use as a trigger during shutdown?

NoN said:

Don't be so Sarcastic...!

Don't be sarcastic??? Hmm. I've never tried that. I'm not sure it can be done.

NoN said:

You'll find a way to set your script, we're trying to give you some answers!:)

Thanks.:)

I've looked at those examples you included. The concepts are clear but I'm not sure how to adapt the to my needs. I don't think I have any problem creating the task, but I don't know enough about Windows "events" to know how to trigger the task. Is there an even available as a trigger that is guaranteed to happen only during shutdown? I didn't see anything obvious, but I could easily have missed one.

Kirsch said:

There is also this Group Policy Registration Table

You can basically edit anything you would using gpedit.msc, except you will have to use regedit and use that table to set the values according to what you wanna do

You will probably find the following snippet of interest.

karlsnooks said:

Kirsch said:

There is also this Group Policy Registration Table

You can basically edit anything you would using gpedit.msc, except you will have to use regedit and use that table to set the values according to what you wanna do

You will probably find the following snippet of interest.

Ah, but my modifying the directory with regedit presupposed that I know what I'm doing - an unwarranted assumption. Actually, using gpedit makes that same assumption, I guess

NoN said:

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The one solution will be to upgrade to a Pro version...

I decided to bite the bullet and do the upgrade (even though it irks me to have to upgrade just to get a safe way to implement a shutdown script. And strangely, Windows shut down (twice) with no trouble during the upgrade process, and shutdown cleanly the one time I've tried it following the upgrade. Maybe I don't even need gpedit now that I have it.