Session Time / Time quotas

[mreese]

Hello,

I'm looking to see if there is a way to setup a session time or time quota on windows 7.

We are looking at installing 2 computer to be used like a kiosk in our University Center for students to check e-mail, web, etc..

One of the requests is to have the systems auto logoff after 15min. Information has been found and set to log off on inactivity but that only one side of what they want done.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[trekker]

If you want something that is going to be enforced that the user can't get around, you may have to look third-party. However, there is a way you can do this with a Preference. Create a Scheduled Task (that runs as the logged in user) that begins at logon and is delayed for 15 minutes that runs a shutdown /l /f . Just be aware that a savvy enough user will be able to circumvent it.

[mreese]

Thanks for the information. I'll try this and see how it works. If you or anyone knows of a third-party software we can look in to that as well. Downside is we only have a need for this on 2 systems at this time.

[mreese]

VBscript in Startup.

Dim Act
set ws = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Const Hidden = 0, Normal = 1, Min = 2, Max =3, Recent = 4, Current_Size = 5,Min_ActiveSame = 7,Defualt_Call_State_ByApp =10

Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

ws.Popup "N O T I C E: Your session is 15 minutes ! !",15,"NOTICE" 'wait for 15 seconds

' WScript.Echo " N O T I C E: Your session is 15 minutes ! !"

WScript.Sleep 10 * 60 * 1000

ws.Popup "N O T I C E: The computer will logoff in 5 minutes ! !",15,"NOTICE" 'wait for 15 seconds

' WScript.Echo " N O T I C E: The computer will logoff in 5 minutes ! !"

WScript.Sleep 5 * 60 * 1000
Act.Run("%comspec% /C Echo Off && logoff.exe"),Hidden,True


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I changed from echo to using popup. With Echo, if you do not click the ok button the script would not advance.

With Popup you can set a time out.