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. 

New version of PuTTY

Well after four years there has been an update to PuTTY.  The official text for the release is "PuTTY 0.61 is out, after over four years (sorry!), with new features, bug fixes, and compatibility updates for Windows 7 and various SSH server software."

For me this helps as the older version of PuTTY did not display the password notices on our few Solaris 10 machines.  We added password rules etc, and when using PuTTY it would not say that the password was too short, or didn't contain a digit etc, but this has now been rectified.

You can download the new version from the following link http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

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