Administrator force logoff of locked workstation without Fast User Switching
Is there any way for an administrator to force a user to log off a locked workstation when Fast User Switching is disabled?
April 21st, 2010 7:53pm

This really does not prevent a solution for most Enterprise Support Staff when standing in front of the comptuer. We have submitted several requests to Microsoft with no one able to provide a solution to date. Unless Fast User Switching is enabled, you cannot override the current logged in user while standing in front of the computer. In the case of a Call Center and shared desktops, you could potentially task the resources on a single computer until it is rebooted.
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November 5th, 2010 1:14pm

We had the same issues so when a computer is locked I just go back to my machine and run this powershell command to log them off. (gwmi win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName MyServer).Win32Shutdown(0)
March 23rd, 2011 2:04pm

I suppose you could always log on and then force the logoff from Task Manager. Messy I know, but it works. Mark M Webster
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March 23rd, 2011 7:47pm

I realize I am really late on the draw for this one, but this problem has just cropped up for us and I was wondering if there has been a reliable fix for it yet? I work in an Army hospital, and often times it is necessary to log someone off as an admin, because they locked their machine, to fix an issue. We also have many machines that are multiple users. We are just migrating to Win7, and I'm hoping someone out there has a better answer now. Thank you.
October 28th, 2011 3:06pm

We had the same issue and created a DLL and registry entry that adds "Force log off user" option to the locked screen
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June 23rd, 2012 7:08pm

Mind sharing your code for the DLL and Registry entries dbwillis? Thanks in advance!
July 27th, 2012 12:30pm

Can you please chare the Dll and registry entry so we can put this on our systems? Thanks
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August 16th, 2012 8:16am

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