How to go to lock screen in Windows in C#?

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to go to lock screen where it's asked for Windows user account password

Posted 1-Dec-15 1:18am

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C#

[DllImport("user32")]
public static extern void LockWorkStation();

Usage: 

  LockWorkStation();

Posted 1-Dec-15 1:36am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Dec-15 14:45pm

Sure, a 5.
—SA

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-01T01:26:00

There are two options

1. Hook to the API and call LockWorkStation[^] function
2. Execute this shell command from your code:

rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

Posted 1-Dec-15 1:26am

Comments

CPallini 1-Dec-15 7:28am

5.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 1-Dec-15 7:30am

Thank you!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Dec-15 14:44pm

Sure, a 5. And #2 can be performed using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start, to be more precise.
—SA

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 1-Dec-15 14:50pm

Thank you!