goLfie Posted October 23, 2009 Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 This is a silly question from me, but does anyone know the Windows shortcut keys for locking your computer and other system tasks when using virtual windows 7 through a remote desktop session? The windows key doesn't seem to re-act the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Animis Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Keys should be the same except for these: ALT+PAGE UP Switches between programs from left to right. ALT+PAGE DOWN Switches between programs from right to left. ALT+INSERT Cycles through the programs in the order they were started. ALT+HOME Displays the Start menu. CTRL+ALT+BREAK Switches the client between a window and full screen. CTRL+ALT+END Brings up the Windows Security dialog box. ALT+DELETE Displays the Windows menu. CTRL+ALT+Minus (-) symbol on the numeric keypad Places a snapshot of the active window, within the client, on the Terminal server clipboard (provides the same functionality as pressing PrintScrn on a local computer.) CTRL+ALT+Plus (+) symbol on the numeric keypad Places a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard (provides the same functionality as pressing ALT+PrintScrn on a local computer.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadim Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 This is a silly question from me, but does anyone know the Windows shortcut keys for locking your computer and other system tasks when using virtual windows 7 through a remote desktop session? The windows key doesn't seem to re-act the same way. Just minimize it. If you use WIN+L, it will just lock your local machine instead of your remote rdp session. Why lock a remote RDP connection? It's not like anyone can walk up and start using it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goLfie Posted December 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 good point vadim tho I mostly just wanted to do it for the coolness factor cause i'm using 2 screens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vadim Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 lol hehheheh I'll play around with it and let ya know however I really don't think you can lock the screen. You can however use all the other shortcuts like WIN+Left Arrow, Win+M etc... I'll play around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Joseph Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 You can look but it's not possible. You cant lock the screen with a shortcut key in Windows 7 (not out of the box anyway). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Joseph Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 You can look but it's not possible. You cant lock the screen with a shortcut key in Windows 7 (not out of the box anyway). Ok.... I lied It "is" possible. I just played with it and here's the story: PERFORM THESE STEPS ON THE REMOTE MACHINE Step 1: Copy the following code into a txt file and rename it to LOCK.vbs. Personally copied the file to c:\scripts\lock.vbs however it can live anywhere. On Error Resume Next Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") objShell.Run "%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation" Step 2: Create a shortcut for lock.vbs on your desktop Step 3: Assign a shortcut key(s) for the file. In my example I used CTRL+SHIFT+L FYI - I stole the code from the scripting guys blog: http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptinggu ... cript.aspx Enjoy GoLfie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockersh Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 You can look but it's not possible. You cant lock the screen with a shortcut key in Windows 7 (not out of the box anyway). Ok.... I lied It "is" possible. I just played with it and here's the story: Dude that's awesome lol - nice find. I think I'm going to use the script from the link to lock workstations of ppl around the office remotely. LOL oh yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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