Auto Logon Q

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:22 pm

I'm not familiar with autologon but is it worth to try it to solve this problem for someone, or are there other ways to skin this cat?

On an XP PC an application is running that at intervals calls a batch file to run another program from the command line with some passed parameters.

This works fine if the PC isn't locked. If the PC is locked the application itself runs OK, but the called command line program won't run. Could the app instead call a macro that unlocks the PC to run the command line program and then lock it again? Or does unlock only work with the scheduler?

I would have to install a bunch of stuff to work on this so I'm just trying not to waste my time

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:33 pm

AutoLogon is triggered by the scheduler. However, search this forum for DoLogon.exe which is a command line program which will invoke AutoLogon and can therefore be called by the macro. You still need the AutoLogon service installed and enabled.

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:40 pm

Thanks for the tip. Sounds like a good turkey day project

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:42 pm

Had to think for a minute there ... turkey day is not for another 5 weeks for us here in the UK