Truly log off automatically

[Shepard Tate]

Trying to see if I can have xp log off users that are idle for say 10
minutes. Only found the below response to a similar question.
Checking the box does not log a person off, only displays the welcome
screen after waking up your screen saver. The person who was logged
on and idle will still be up and running. I want the idle user to be
logged off automatically. Any way to do this?
Thanks
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How Do I have XP Log Off Automatically? I have seen
some PCs go back to the welcome screen when the computer
is idle. How do I make it do this?

Hi Scott,

Display properties/Screensaver tab, enable "On resume, Display Welcome
screen".

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Paul Smith]

Trying to see if I can have xp log off users that are idle for say 10
minutes. Only found the below response to a similar question.
Checking the box does not log a person off, only displays the welcome
screen after waking up your screen saver. The person who was logged
on and idle will still be up and running. I want the idle user to be
logged off automatically. Any way to do this?

Are you sure?

If you logged someone off automatically, any open applications would simply
have to close and any data unsaved in memory would be lost.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.

*Replace nospam with smirnov to reply by e-mail*

 

[Clark Griswold]

Trying to see if I can have xp log off users that are idle for say 10
minutes. Only found the below response to a similar question.
Checking the box does not log a person off, only displays the welcome
screen after waking up your screen saver. The person who was logged
on and idle will still be up and running. I want the idle user to be
logged off automatically. Any way to do this?
Thanks
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Hi Scott,

Display properties/Screensaver tab, enable "On resume, Display Welcome
screen".

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

Windows 2000 Resource Kit has a Windows logoff screen saver. I've applied it
to log people off when the screen saver starts. You can then disable the
screen saver tab using gpedit so they can't disable it. Maybe you can apply
it to WinXP? Try searching the knowledge base for logoff screen saver.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Force user logoff after a period of inactivity:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/winexit.htm

--
Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


Trying to see if I can have xp log off users that are idle for say 10
minutes. Only found the below response to a similar question.
Checking the box does not log a person off, only displays the welcome
screen after waking up your screen saver. The person who was logged
on and idle will still be up and running. I want the idle user to be
logged off automatically. Any way to do this?
Thanks
--------------------------------------------------------------

How Do I have XP Log Off Automatically? I have seen
some PCs go back to the welcome screen when the computer
is idle. How do I make it do this?

Hi Scott,

Display properties/Screensaver tab, enable "On resume, Display Welcome
screen".

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone