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    <p>I was pointed in this direction by the author of a script I've been using for a couple of years now.</p> <p>It allows the remote locking of a desktop, and works fine locally and remotely under Windows XP, and works fine locally under Windows 7, but when trying to use it remotely against a Windows 7 machine it fails to work. It's been great for a few years now and has been very useful, but we've recently started to deploy Windows 7 machines on site and once the upgrade is fully completed I won't be able to use this anymore.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/15332-script-remotely-lock-computer-screen.html" rel="nofollow">same question</a> that I have was posed a couple of years back, but went unanswered.<br> Here is the VBS code:</p> <pre><code>' StartProcess.vbs ' Sample VBScript to start a process. Inputbox for name ' Author Guy Thomas http://computerperformance.co.uk/ ' Version 2.2 - December 2005 ' -------------------------------------------------------' Option Explicit Dim objWMIService, objProcess Dim strShell, objProgram, strComputer, strExe, strInput strExe = "rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation" ' Input Box to get name of machine to run the process Do strComputer = (InputBox(" ComputerName to Run Script",_ "Computer Name")) If strComputer &lt;&gt; "" Then strInput = True End if Loop until strInput = True ' Connect to WMI set objWMIService = getobject("winmgmts://"_ &amp; strComputer &amp; "/root/cimv2") ' Obtain the Win32_Process class of object. Set objProcess = objWMIService.Get("Win32_Process") Set objProgram = objProcess.Methods_( _ "Create").InParameters.SpawnInstance_ objProgram.CommandLine = strExe 'Execute the program now at the command line. Set strShell = objWMIService.ExecMethod( _ "Win32_Process", "Create", objProgram) 'WScript.echo "Created: " &amp; strExe &amp; " on " &amp; strComputer WSCript.Quit ' End of Example of a Process VBScript </code></pre>
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    1. CO[That VBS code never really "worked" in the first place](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/15/58973.aspx). Rundll32.exe was never intended to call the `LockWorkStation` function, as it has the wrong signature. Now is as good a time as any to fix it.
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    2. COThanks for the link and edit Cody, I had seen people saying calling rundll32 for this wasn't a good idea but didn't understand why until now.
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    3. CO@Cody Gray: LockWorkStation does not require any parameters, so it wouldn't mind if rundll32.exe passes more parameters than required.
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