Publishing explorer.exe in XenApp 6

Publishing windows explorer is something that I never thought was a good idea – but some people seem to like it!  It is to be fair a nice, simple alternative a published desktop if people want to just open their documents and then double click on a file.

Its supposed to just be a case of publishing a Hosted application shortcut to c:\windows\explorer.exe, with a parameter of the drive letter or path you want it to default to, like this to start in the h: drive:

It should be that simple.  But it isn’t.  By default this will only stay open if there is another program keeping the session open – if it is launched first (which it would be, logically) it closes after an instant. 

There is a registry fix from Citrix support though for this, which I found on this forum post: http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1461520.

Create a DWORD (32 bit) setting called LogoffCheckerStartupDelayInSeconds with the value 10 at this location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI

If you want a reg file to just import to fix this, copy the following text into a text file and save it with a .reg extension:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWI]
"LogoffCheckerStartupDelayInSeconds"=dword:00000010