logon hours

[George Hester]

In Windows XP Professional SP1 default installation type I am finding the logon hours to be about 5mins. This is way
too short. I'd like it to be about 365 days. In other words I do not want Windows XP to log out the user at all. So I
went and founed this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/566.mspx

At the bottom it has a link to How to set Logon hours. And this was the result:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/566.mspx

Nothing available.

Can someone suggest how I can set the logon hours so that a local user who has logged on to Windows XP SP1 is
NOT automatically logged off at all? Thanks.

 

[Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk]

In Windows XP Professional SP1 default installation type I am finding
the logon hours to be about 5mins. This is way too short. I'd like
it to be about 365 days. In other words I do not want Windows XP to
log out the user at all. [...] Can someone suggest how I can set the
logon hours so that a local user who has logged on to Windows XP SP1
is NOT automatically logged off at all? Thanks.

See scheduled tasks for some tasks that may cause log off. Use command
"net user username /times:all". Check also secpol.msc settings.

 

[NobodyMan]

In Windows XP Professional SP1 default installation type I am finding the logon hours to be about 5mins. This is way
too short. I'd like it to be about 365 days. In other words I do not want Windows XP to log out the user at all. So I
went and founed this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/566.mspx

At the bottom it has a link to How to set Logon hours. And this was the result:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/566.mspx

Nothing available.

Can someone suggest how I can set the logon hours so that a local user who has logged on to Windows XP SP1 is
NOT automatically logged off at all? Thanks.

That is the default. If you don't set times, they don't exist.

I'm using a domain to manage my workstation, so I don't have access to
this, but can you set access hours in a peer workgroup? I don't
recall it, but it's been a long time since I've had to manage XP Pro
outside of a domain.

 

[George Hester]

I did nothing about Logon hours. And the default is 5 mins. I'd like it to be never. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

In Windows XP Professional SP1 default installation type I am finding the logon hours to be about 5mins. This is way
too short. I'd like it to be about 365 days. In other words I do not want Windows XP to log out the user at all. So I
went and founed this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/566.mspx

At the bottom it has a link to How to set Logon hours. And this was the result:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/566.mspx

Nothing available.

Can someone suggest how I can set the logon hours so that a local user who has logged on to Windows XP SP1 is
NOT automatically logged off at all? Thanks.

Hi

This has nothing to do with logon hours, the logon hours setting is
only able to stop you from logging on at certain times, it will
*not* log you off.

The forced logoff policy mentioned in the links above is a policy for
SMB server, i.e. the computer which has a network share accessible from
a network. This policy, if enabled on a server, ends the users session
with the server when their logon hours expire, it will not log off the
user's actual logon to the local computer.


This might be the solution to your problem:

Right-click the desktop and choose Properties to open the Display
Properties dialog box.

Click the Screen Saver tab.

Clear the check box labeled On Resume, Display Welcome Screen (if
Fast User Switching is enabled) or On Resume, Password Protect
(if Fast User Switching is disabled).

 

[George Hester]

Seems we have to be a member of a domain for this logoff to stop. Really
why make this extending the logon time impossible in Windows XP? I can just
imagine the smirks generated by this decision at Microsoft.

 

[George Hester]

Hey thanks Torgeir. Unfortunately I cannot do that anymore. I joined
Windows XP to a domain and now I don't get a Welcome screen and the user is
never logged off. Yes I see what logon hours was all about but that term
was the best I could come up with for this issue. Mine says On resume,
password protect. I think I know what that does. Maybe if I re-enable Fast
User Switching? I'll see if that has changed.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hey thanks Torgeir. Unfortunately I cannot do that anymore. I joined
Windows XP to a domain and now I don't get a Welcome screen and the user is
never logged off. Yes I see what logon hours was all about but that term
was the best I could come up with for this issue. Mine says On resume,
password protect. I think I know what that does. Maybe if I re-enable Fast
User Switching? I'll see if that has changed.

Hi

Not that you will need to un-join the computer from the domain
to be able to re-enable Fast User Switching...