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Sometimes I need to remote my home computer to make my kid's account logged-on physically and I'm currently using VNC to do that.

Is it possible (with or without modification) to connect users to the console session with a command so I can set up some web-based tools to make life easier.

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  • Which exact Windows version? May 19, 2012 at 3:59

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I'm answering my own question (typed a wrong email):

Disclaimer, this is a very dirty hack and only for geeky parents. (anyway,if you are geeky enough, you don't need this, educate your kids. should works on vista+, tested on 7 only)

  1. Set the target (kid's) account to auto-logon on start:
    • start netplwiz;
    • uncheck Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.;
    • apply and type in logon details of the target account.
  2. Create a task:
    • run by the administrative account
    • run on the logons of target account
    • run this command tsdiscon.exe with parameter 1
  3. Every time you boot into windows, the target account will be logged-on and locked immediately.
  4. Use qwinsta to get session id of the target account (usually 1 as it should be the first console logon on boot)
  5. Use tscon <session id> /dest:console /password:<password of target account> to connect your kid to console
  6. You may want to execute them remotely with psexec -sor by other ways.
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  • You may want to edit your question then. Somehow your answer and your question seem to be about different things. I already edited the tags on your question to include windows-7 as you didn't mention the Windows version before. May 19, 2012 at 5:44
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As far as I am aware you can't do what you want easily without a replacement GINA (up to Vista) or a logon provider (since Vista), unless you enter the credentials on the SAS (secure attention sequence) desktop.

However, if you are using a Windows version up until Windows 2003, you could use a canned version like AgreementGINA2 (use a web search to find it). On Windows versions starting with Vista the GINA has been replaced by logon providers, which is a different kind of "program" than the above.

For all I know, some flavors of VNC and similar tools will, however, allow you to send Ctrl+Alt+Del in order to get to the SAS, if that is sufficient for you. But your question sounded like you actually want to automate it.

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