FirstLogonCommands
FirstLogonCommands specifies commands to run the first time a user logs on to the computer. These commands are run only once.
Commands run during FirstLogonCommands are silently elevated (as long as the logged-on user has administrative privileges) because running these commands requires either editing the registry with administrative privileges or launching Windows Setup with FirstLogonCommands specified in an unattended installation answer file. If the user does not have administrative privileges, a dialog box opens asking if the user needs to enable the program to run.
Note
FirstLogonCommands run only when an account with administrator privilege logs onto the computer. If a non-administrator account logs onto the computer, commands that are listed in the FirstLogonCommand settings are not executed.
FirstLogonCommands are run after logon but prior to showing the desktop. FirstLogonCommands launches all commands synchronously and launches the next one only after the previous command has completed. The "synchronous" nature of these commands means that the next FirstLogonCommands is not launched until the previous FirstLogonCommands finishes, as determined by waiting on the process handle. If you set the first FirstLogonCommands to launch something else asynchronously by creating a second process so the first process can terminate quickly, the next RunOnce command will execute concurrently with the second process created by the first command. Other processes, such as services, are not gated by FirstLogonCommands and will continue to start or to terminate independently of FirstLogonCommands.
FirstLogonCommands runs in the user context.
Child Elements
Specifies a command to run the first time a user logs on to the computer, its description, and the order in which it is run. |
Valid Passes
Parent Hierarchy
Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup | FirstLogonCommands
Applies To
For the list of the supported Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.
This setting is available to OEMs and system builders.
XML Example
The following XML output shows how to set first logon commands.
<FirstLogonCommands>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<CommandLine>c:synccommands\command1.exe</CommandLine>
<Description>Description_of_command1</Description>
<Order>1</Order>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<CommandLine>c:synccommands\command2.exe</CommandLine>
<Description>Description_of_command2</Description>
<Order>2</Order>
</SynchronousCommand>
</FirstLogonCommands>