Windows logoff script (logoff.bat)

This is just a quick post to let you see a simple batch script I have written that I run everytime I log out of my work PC.  It's very simple, just cleans up a few things, the script is fully documented, but if anything isn't clear then please feel free to ask.

There a python script that is called, this is a new addition which goes through and compresses all of my putty session logs, I have a seperate log for each of my PuTTY server connections, depending on what I am doing they can grow quite large, so the script compresses and date stamps them.  I can post the python script if you would like to see it.

You can download the batch file here.

@echo off

REM The above command turns off the output for the script

REM Name : logoff.bat

REM Author : Craig Richards

REM Created : 15th-April-2011

REM Version : 1.2

REM Modified : 1.1 - Changed hard coded path from C:\Documents and Settings\my name to %USERPROFILE%

REM : 1.1 - Changed the hard coded path for drive to %HOMEDRIVE%

REM : 1.2 - Added the section to call my python script to compress my puttylogs when I log off the machine

REM Instructions : From the command line, just type logoff.bat, or double click on the file in windows explorer

REM Clear all Temporary Internet Files

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

REM Clear IE History

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1

REM Remove all files from %TEMP% - You can get a copy of sdelete here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443

sdelete -s %TEMP%/*.*

REM Remove list of Recently opened documents - You can get a copy of sdelete here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443

sdelete "%USERPROFILE%\Recent\*.*"

REM Compress the days puttylogs - 1.2 

python puttylogs.py

REM Log the date/time 

echo %DATE% %TIME% >> %HOMEDRIVE%\logoff.txt

REM Log off my machine

shutdown -l -f 

As always I am always interested in your thoughts so if you have any comments or feedback then please feel free to add any comments, or you can mail me  here. 

Update on 2012-03-16 15:59 by Craig Richards

This is the python script I wrote to zip up my puttylogs.

# Script Name  : puttylogs.py
# Author    : Craig Richards
# Created    : 13th October 2011
# Last Modified  :
# Version    : 1.1

# Modifications  : 1.1 - Added the variable zip_program so you can set it for the zip program on whichever OS, so to run on a different OS just change the locations of these two variables.

# Description   : Zip up all the logs in the given directory

import os                 # Load the Library Module
import shutil                # Load the Library Module
from time import strftime            # Load just the strftime Module from Time

logsdir="c:\logs\puttylogs"           # Set the Variable logsdir
zipdir="c:\logs\puttylogs\zipped_logs"
zip_program="zip.exe"            # Set the Variable zip_program - 1.1

for files in os.listdir(logsdir):          # Find all the files in the directory
 if files.endswith(".log"):           # Check to ensure the files in the directory end in .log
  files1=files+"."+strftime("%Y-%m-%d")+".zip"  # Create the Variable files1, this is the files in the directory, then we add a suffix with the date and the zip extension
  os.chdir(logsdir)             # Change directory to the logsdir
  os.system(zip_program + " " +  files1 +" "+ files) # Zip the logs into dated zip files for each server. - 1.1
  shutil.move(files1, zipdir)
  os.remove(files)             # Remove the original log files
  

Update on 2013-05-03 13:47 by Craig Richards

I have just changed this script slightly now that I have upgraded my work machine to run Windows 7 Professional.  The location for the recently opened files has now changed.

On Windows XP they used to be stored

%USERPROFILE%\Recent

Now I am Windows 7 Professional, the new location is

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent