Comments on: Did You Know You Can Unlock YOUR User’s XP Workstation?

By: Marsha

Marsha — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:44:55 +0000

You can use a third party product that allows you to set who (not necessarily and administrator) can unlock the workstation. It is called Unlock Administrator and you can find it at http://www.e-motional.com/ULAdmin.htm

By: marco

marco — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:43:27 +0000

Great tip, but did not work for me when tested. Worse; it was flagged as a trojan by AVG. . . Great idea though if it worked, happens too much where we don’t know if the user saved their work, or they just don’t like to be ‘kicked off’ when they get back to the machine.

By: NinjaAdmin

NinjaAdmin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:12:30 +0000

This is hands down AWESOME! Thank YOU CHUGGER and AskTheAdmin! This is going to make my job SO MUCH EASIER!

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:41:28 +0000

To clear it up this will allow you to gain access to a users desktop without having to resort to logging them out.

Awesome for gaining access to open documents on a users machine that wont be back any time soon and you need to have someone else open it.

By: CptSubtext

CptSubtext — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:27:10 +0000

after reading it again, i got it ;) … just misunderstood the text

By: CptSubtext

CptSubtext — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:15:29 +0000

@Rarst:
“but it will log off the current user killing any documents they have opened and in a un-saved state.”

this way its the same…

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:32:29 +0000

>if you have the admin-pw + and you log off the user, so why not directly log him off?
or am i missing something?

Because if user has word document open with few hours of work he hadn’t (of course) bothered to save – you are going to hear lots of unpleasant things for loging him of. :)

By: CptSubtext

CptSubtext — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:54:43 +0000

“Of course you need the administrator password to the machine or the domain” + “but it will log off the current user ”
if you have the admin-pw + and you log off the user, so why not directly log him off?
or am i missing something?

so what s the deal?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:12:23 +0000

Cool but it’s really hack. Winlogon screen is exactly made to prevent such stuff and that’s why it requires complex service+dll inject to break through it.

Pro: dealing with PCs whith users that manage to be “out 3 mins” for hours

Con: hack-ish nature, possibility to crash remote systm with injection and this tool is probably going to be in all AV databases pretty soon :)

By: dot45

dot45 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:32:20 +0000

Awesome, added to the thumbdrive :D