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How to know when a user console is locked or has logged "back into" windows

This is in regards to applications that run in the taskbar but should be applicable to standard apps, Winforms, WPF, etc.

Question: I am after some method (preferably via managed code) to be notified when a user either has their screen "locked" while my app is running and/or know when they log back in.

GMail Notifier does this sort of thing for example, if my PC is locked for a while when I log in again it shows a list of emails that arrived since locking the PC. I'm looking to replicate that kind of functionality.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this?

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You want to hook into the System Event Notification Service and subscribe to the ISensLogon DisplayLock/DisplayUnlock events.

Nick Bastin  2010-05-06 21:51:39
Do you know of a good managed implementation using `ISensLogon`?
Paul Kohler  2010-05-06 23:35:26
I don't know of an explicitly managed implementation, but there's an example implementation in Python at http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/track-session-events.html
Nick Bastin  2010-05-07 02:56:37

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