Auto-Logoff (WINEXIT.SCR) not working...?

[Kenneth]

Howdy,

I have loaded the screen saver WINEXIT.SCR and have it in
/WINNT/SYSTEM32 with its other screen saver friends.

It appears as "Logoff Screen Saver" in Desktop | Properties
| Screensaver.

It does run, but it does not log off the user after any
specified period of inactivity.

Instead, it counts down, and the screen goes black. At that
point, touching any key brings back the screen. I have, BTW,
check the box to force closure of any running apps, but that
does not help.

Any thoughts about why this thing is not working?

Thanks,

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Howdy,

I have loaded the screen saver WINEXIT.SCR and have it in
/WINNT/SYSTEM32 with its other screen saver friends.

It appears as "Logoff Screen Saver" in Desktop | Properties
| Screensaver.

It does run, but it does not log off the user after any
specified period of inactivity.

Instead, it counts down, and the screen goes black. At that
point, touching any key brings back the screen. I have, BTW,
check the box to force closure of any running apps, but that
does not help.

Any thoughts about why this thing is not working?

Thanks,

As an experiment on one client, use tip 9130 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

If this logs the use off, the problem is definetly related to WINEXIT.SCR

To do it one one workstation, run only:

SCHTASKS.exe /Create /RU "SYSTEM" /SC ONIDLE /I %IM% /TN "IOff" /TR "%lcl%\PsShutdown.exe -O -F" /S %computer%

where %IM% is the idele minutes, %lcl% is the folder path that contains PsShutdown.exe, and %computer% is the computer name
you want to implement this on.







Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com