RobEubank 0 Posted February 19, 2003 I need to configure a couple of workstations (Win2k - SP2) to reboot themselves after the screensaver has been active for more than 30 minutes. The screen saver is password protected. I need to log out the user, and return the computer to a usable state for the next user "without administrative intevention". Is there any way to tweak the power management settings to completely reboot the machine or at least log off the active user after a specific period of inactivity? The problem I'm attempting to work around is locally authenticated users on these systems typically leave without logging out and forces the admins to log in or reset the machine. I also plan to change the shut down routine for non admins to reboot instead of shutting down. (This I can do through policies) Share this post Link to post
DS3Circuit 0 Posted February 19, 2003 Quote: or at least log off the active user after a specific period of inactivity? http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4541http://www.tburke.net/info/reskittools/topics/winexit.htm If you want the machines to reboot .... you can write a VB script to do that. Share this post Link to post
RobEubank 0 Posted February 20, 2003 That's definitely a start in the right direction. Thanks. Share this post Link to post
RobEubank 0 Posted February 25, 2003 Unfortunately the user isn't an admin and thus the Winexit.scr doesn't work properly. I even granted full control of the "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version" subkey to no avail. The only way it works as advertised is to make the user an admin and that's not an acceptable solution. Any other suggestions would very much be appreciated. BTW, If you have the screensaver set to password protected, Winexit doesn't work at all. It just locks the screen like any other .SCR. Share this post Link to post
DS3Circuit 0 Posted February 26, 2003 If you're running in a 2000 domain context, use user defined group policies to control the screensaver and deploy the correct registry key security permissions. Works like a charm on our network. Share this post Link to post
DS3Circuit 0 Posted February 26, 2003 http://lachesis.coe.ttu.edu/ppp/winexit.html Just to refine things a little more. Share this post Link to post