Mastering Windows Group Policy

Launching an application upon login

Users have to log into their computers each morning. Once logged in, they open the applications that they will be utilizing throughout the day. A timesaver that could make their day more efficient would be a policy that was configured to automatically launch a certain set of applications whenever someone logs into a computer. This could be especially useful for a kiosk machine of some kind, where numerous different people might log into it, and you wanted an application to auto-launch in the event that any user logged into that computer. Again, we won't cover the creation, linking, or filtering of GPOs from this point forward; instead, we'll focus on the settings themselves, where they are located, and ...