Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Log a User Off After 5 Minutes of Inactivity?

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Log a User Off After 5 Minutes of Inactivity?

Zan — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:17:53 GMT

Here's something I wrote to log my kids off after 30 minutes of use (with the ability to extend the time limit if needed)

zans-tips.blogspot.com/.../limiting-windows-user-login-to-x-minutes.html

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Log a User Off After 5 Minutes of Inactivity?

Supermario — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:45:16 GMT

There are some tools that help with logging of inactive users... One is AutoLogoff... wizardsoft.nl/.../autologoff.html It can be managed by group policy and has options for a warning message, first locking the screen, force logoff the user deleting temporary files in the process. Maybe worth a look.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Log a User Off After 5 Minutes of Inactivity?

Sage — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:47:19 GMT

Much appreciated Ed. I will try that and post the results :)

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Log a User Off After 5 Minutes of Inactivity?

Ed Wilson — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:51:44 GMT

@Sarge, This article was written nearly five years ago, back before Windows Vista or Windows 7 were released -- and therefore it was never tested on anything beyond Windows XP. I do not think that there is a problem with 64 bit or 32 bit ... but frankly, I do not see anything that would cause it to fail. I am going to GUESS that you need to open up a CMD prompt with administrative rights, and run the script elevated.

re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Log a User Off After 5 Minutes of Inactivity?

Sage — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:53:43 GMT

Can you advise how i can run this script on Win7 64bit? Works fine on XP. Though get an expected argument error on win7 64.

Thanks