Unlock workstation without closing session

[sue_brighton 0]

For WinNT, Win2000, and WinXP, when a workstation is locked, nobody but the person who locked that station (not even an admin) can unlock the station. When an administator tries to unlock the station, the session will close immediately shutting down all the applications that are currently running on the system. This often poses a problem for us. We often see yellow stickies asking people not to touch the system. Shutting down someones system is simply not an option.

 

This does not make any sense to me! This, in effect gives a regular user more power than an administrator who should have absolute control over the system.

 

Ideally, as an administrator, I would like to be able to truely unlock the system. That is, unlock the system without closing the session.

 

Anyone know how or even if this is possible?

 

Sue

 

[Drovenovus 0]

Remote desktop is an option. Or a telnet session. Personally, I like using the remote desktop option, it lets me login to their computer from my workstation without losing their data. It works with both XP pro and Win2000pro. I never tried it with NT4.

 

I upgraded 90% of my workstations to XP pro for this very useful option.

 

All you need to do is download the Admin Pack from Microsoft. Works best with XP pro.