At home, our PC running Vista is rarely rebooted and is either in a low power state sleeping or being used by either me or my wife. All users run at the same screen resolution to take you to the users screen. After a 20 minutes fruitless Googling for some special key combination, I sat back, thought about it logically and came up with this solution:.
And that did it. It was of course originally designed to support multiple users connecting concurrently to these sessions over the network using the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP , but Windows XP took advantage of the multi-session architecture to enable Fast User Switching.
The RDP stuff is still there but hobbled to only allow one user to connect at a a time. I used Dependency Walker aka depends. View all posts by Duncan Smart. Simple solution but works perfectly and the bonus is that you can use whatever key combination you want within reason rather than the one imposed by MS.
Many thanks for this. Shame that for user switching Vista turns out to be a step backwards from XP. I suppose I could add it by downloading it, or activating certain windows services, but it should not be necessary.
Where does the shortcut in the start menu point to? It works, so I should just be able copy that path or shortcut.
Does anyone who has a bit version of Vista have this tsdiscon. Do I have to be logged into a server for the code to work? Do you think the C code would work differently?
Ok, found a gotcha in the process. I had done an upgrade from Windows XP, and the copy of tsdiscon. Old folder. I corrected the shortcut and I was in business.
Hey, thanks for the tip! Compiled it using csc. Great tip. Now, instead of either logging off or locking, it just drops us back to the switch user screen! To use the compiler method mentioned above first copy and paste the C code into notepad. Save it as a. Then navigate to the folder containing csc. Now take your switchuser. It will out put a. Double clicking on the file will take you to the switch user screen. You may want to change the icon though as it just uses the default system icon.
I thought you would like to know, I downloaded your switchuser. I ran the exe on this win7 machine and it works for this version of windoze too. Used the zipped exe since I have home premium no tsdiscon. Ended up pinning the shortcut to the Start Menu, moved it to the top of the list. Piece of cake. Finally, after hundred sites telling me to add a shortcut with tsdiscon. I was wondering the following. I only have two users of my computer.
Is it possible to modify your great tool to simply toggle between the two which would save the step of selecting the next user. Thanks in advance. I had the same idea, and I think it should be possible. It would involve running some elevated code perhaps using Task Scheduler. I, too, have just two users and would find this VERY helpful.
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Open the Network Folder and select your PC. You will probably see "Public" and "Users". If you are Denied Access, then all is good. If you can access anything other than "Public" Folder, then this is the Security Breach. Right Click on Users Folder.
This will end this problem. Right Click on Public Folder. If it is already Shared with Full Permissions, then all is good. What I mean is, that it will connect and seem fixed.
And then 1 minute or hours later it is back to not connecting. There is no altering anything and creating a possible bigger mess for a temporary problem that will most likely be fixed in a Cumulative Update soon or the next Creators Update.
And this might fix this type of issue on other Versions or Windows Operating Systems. Create 1 shortcut for all of the PC's on your Network. If you still have an issue, you should reboot your modem and restart all PC's on your Network. The following and complete the shortcut. Location entered is:. You can also "Add a Network Location".
Now from the Two Shortcuts Created above or from the. Do the same as above, but enter the "PC Name" instead. And Complete the Shortcut. You can also "Add a Network Location ". But you have to add Public.
The Following and C omplete the Shortcut. I am going to explain first on How to Prepare your External Drive's Security, and then you can start sharing. I Would definitely "Take Ownership" of the Drive. This prevents anyone from taking ownership of it or modifying, moving, changing or deleting any content inside of it.
I highly suggest to do this. This is Very Important. I suggest you do the same. Then people on the Network cannot modify, move, change or delete the Item or anything inside of it. But Administrator s still can, no matter what. Which will also be explained in Step 4 below. Now the Permission Window is Next. Selecting "Full Control" is Just That. Now the Permissions Window is Displayed.
How to Share Drives, Folders and Files:. It was already explained above on how to share using HomeGroup. However, this method is not your best option and limits you on Users and Permissions Control. I will always use the Advanced Sharing Method. User "Everyone" in the List. That is it. Remember, If you had to create shortcuts to the PC's using the. You Must use these Shortcuts. Remember, These shortcuts in your. Names Cut Out for Privacy:. Then you notice and as shown in my Public Folder.
The best and fastest navigation through your whole network of available access and content. Notice in left Navigation Pane, It shows the 3 PC's by name under Network as they are discovered but can not connect to each other.
Then you see the connection I made with the shortcut I created with the IP Address and that is why it is also displayed in the Navigation Pane under Network. Then if you right click on Taskbar.
Initial Setup:. Your External Storage Drive. Now for the External Drive Setup, if you have already prepared your external drive as mentioned in Step 2 above, then continue as follows:.
Private Sharing Folder View:. This shortcut on your Desktop and the shortcut for the other person on their desktop is how you will access the main folder to privately share between each other.
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