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Check if somebody is logged on or computer is locked? - 1/17/2006 11:53:50 PM

electro

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I want to run certain scripts at night but I want them not to run if there is a user logged on or if the computer is locked?
How do I do that?

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RE: Check if somebody is logged on or computer is locked? - 1/18/2006 5:52:16 AM

Country73

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I'm not sure if there is a way to check this purely through VBS; I started using psloggedon.exe and so I never looked any further into VBS for it.
www.sysinternals.com

Here's a little snippet of code for using that program.
You will just need to download the psloggedon.exe then alter "PSL", "strComputer", "DOM"

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RE: Check if somebody is logged on or computer is locked? - 1/19/2006 8:32:30 PM

ginolard

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You could just check if Explorer.EXE is running.

It's only ever running if a user is logged on and, for a machine to be locked, there needs to be a user logged on ;)

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RE: Check if somebody is logged on or computer is locked? - 1/20/2006 12:18:54 AM

Country73

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That's seems to be a more simplified way of verifying a user is logged in or not.
I guess I'm just used to my little script with psloggedon since I'm able to extract the UserName if someone is actually logged in.

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RE: Check if somebody is logged on or computer is locked? - 1/20/2006 12:54:52 AM

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Try this!

And as ginolard said, if noone is logged on it cant be locked ;)

Hope it helps!

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RE: Check if somebody is logged on or computer is locked? - 1/20/2006 1:13:02 AM

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Crazymatt,

That script is fine but it won't detect users who are logged on locally. I had exactly the same issue when developing ManagePC and the only way I could retrieve the logged-on user with any accuracy was to check the owner of the EXPLORER.EXE process.

Matt

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RE: Check if somebody is logged on or computer is locked? - 1/22/2006 6:39:12 PM

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Oh, didnt know that. I dont have any local users though so it havnt been a problem for me.
But its good to know and i will add in the explorer.exe check as an extra IF statement when i have some spare time :)

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CM

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