Unlock workstation without closing session

[sue_brighton]

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

[bailey]

maybe I missed something, how it it locked, I don't remember seeing anything like that in xp-pro manual

[sue_brighton]

Under Win2000 Press Cntrl-Alt-Del when logged in and click "Lock Now"

Sue

[bailey]

from what I read in the book, all you need to do is use the adminstrators password to unlock it and see what programs are running.

ti set the system as locked by the logged in user and only the user and a adminstrator can unlock it with the proper password.

[sue_brighton]

The problem with entering the administrators username and password is that as soon as the system is unlocked it shuts down the current user's session closing down all the applications.

I have however found a third party app that locks a system and has the option for an admin to unlock it.

If you are interested you can find info at:
http://www.e-motional.com/tscreenlock.htm

If anyone has had experience with this please let me know. I would be very interested.