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Hi all,

I'd like to start different applications depending on whether I start my PC at home or in the office (eg different IM clients). It seems like this should be an ideal use of Location Profiles using the settings for "Start Applications Automatically", but it doesn't work for me. I've tried various applications and .cmd files but nothing ever gets started automatically. The correct profile is being marked as active.

Are there some limitations to this capability, or any tricks to get it working?

This is a T420 running Windows 7 Professional

Thanks

One option is, to use different userIDs, one for at home, one for the office, one for Starbucks, etc.
Stick the wanted apps in the respective Startup folders.

RealBlackStuff wrote:One option is, to use different userIDs, one for at home, one for the office, one for Starbucks, etc.
Stick the wanted apps in the respective Startup folders.

Thanks for the reply, but that wouldn't be a good solution for me.

I figured out why it wasn't working. When I was testing it I just logged off from Windows and logged back on again - in this case the applications weren't starting. I noticed though that if I completely restarted my PC then they would start OK.