This is on a windows 2003 terminal server. I think i figured out what is causing the timeout. If you remove the -s it is waiting for the user to confirm that they want to apply the registry settings. Using the script mentioned above is there a way to tell it yes we want to apply the registry settings? If not i found a VB script to do this but i am no wiz at vb and cant get it to apply the registry settings even locally. I will past that code and see if any of you can figure out the vb code. Here is the microsoft link for the vb code.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384906.aspx Here are the registry values i need applied.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwar
e\Microsof
t\Windows\
CurrentVer
sion\Run] "ctfmon.exe"=-
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwar
e\Microsof
t\CTF] "Disable Thread Input Manager"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softwar
e\Microsof
t\CTF\MSUT
B] "ShowDeskBand"=dword:00000
000