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I know that there is a way to create a shortcut on the desktop, that would log a user out. I remember using this for win98 long ago. I can currently create a shortcut that locks the workstation, but can't seem to get one that logs out the current user. Any ideas?

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by reactor2002

You can use a small & simple freeware tool called "ShutdownPro" that will sit in the taskbar.
you can find it at www.winfiles.com, under system utilties.
works on Win95/98/NT/2000.

by jdkc4d

No what im looking for is bascially the command line command to log a user out in win2k. Kinda like how
"c:\winnt\system32\rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation"
Will lock the workstation.

by talli

U could also write a "log-out" script/.bat file and place it's shortcut on the desktop-either to only log the user off, or to completely shut down.For that task I'd advise u to use a neat little toolkit called SmallUtilities.With this suite u can domany useful things, among others u can create a shortcut non-interactively of from CL,execute a batch file automatically upon shutdown,create a shortcut on the desktop that performs the functionality of Start>Run or Start>Shutdown ,and much more.
The following link is to the version that was written for Win95.I do not know your OS version, but I did hear from several people that it works on other versions, and besides, AFAIK,they have other versions of the product ,I just don't have the link.ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/util/sutils20.zip
HTH
Good luck.
Talli

by jdkc4d

Unfortunately sutils21.zip is not on the ftp site you suggested. I tried looking other places for it, but could not find it.

by ann777

Most of the utilities are lockout utilities. Depending on your OS you should be able to creat a batch file to do the logout.... and create a shortcut to it.

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