Auto-lock (Win+L) computer if Ethernet cable is removed or Ethernet signals drops
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I want to make my system auto lock whenever I disconnect the Ethernet cable or my LAN signals drops. I'm using Windows 7 and Windows 10.
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I want to make my system auto lock whenever I disconnect the Ethernet cable or my LAN signals drops. I'm using Windows 7 and Windows 10.
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I want to make my system auto lock whenever I disconnect the Ethernet cable or my LAN signals drops. I'm using Windows 7 and Windows 10.
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I want to make my system auto lock whenever I disconnect the Ethernet cable or my LAN signals drops. I'm using Windows 7 and Windows 10.
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Welcome to Super User! Please note we are not a code-writing service, and questions seeking product recommendations are off-topic. Instead, post specific issues you are having with a script (for example), and folks may be able to help with that. Cheers!
– bertieb
Dec 1 at 13:44
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Also, just supposing hypothetically it happened to be in a corporate environment you wanted to enforce something like that, you may be better off pursuing non-technical avenues of approach.
– bertieb
Dec 1 at 13:49
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Welcome to Super User! Please note we are not a code-writing service, and questions seeking product recommendations are off-topic. Instead, post specific issues you are having with a script (for example), and folks may be able to help with that. Cheers!
– bertieb
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Also, just supposing hypothetically it happened to be in a corporate environment you wanted to enforce something like that, you may be better off pursuing non-technical avenues of approach.
– bertieb
Dec 1 at 13:49
Welcome to Super User! Please note we are not a code-writing service, and questions seeking product recommendations are off-topic. Instead, post specific issues you are having with a script (for example), and folks may be able to help with that. Cheers!
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Also, just supposing hypothetically it happened to be in a corporate environment you wanted to enforce something like that, you may be better off pursuing non-technical avenues of approach.
– bertieb
Dec 1 at 13:49
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According to this answer: https://superuser.com/a/225251/950764 an event will be created when your connections drops. The ID will be 27 and the source depends on your network card. (the answer mentions "e1yexpress" but for me it is "e1dexpress")
This allows you to create and event in Task Scheduler that will execute when your connections drops.
- Open Event Viewer and filter for Events with the ID 27 and level "Warning" under
Windows Logs -> System.
- Now you should see events mentioning your network cards name and the text "Network
link is disconnected" (assuming this has been the case till now). Most importantly
you will now know the events source, which
you need to use for the scheduled task. - Open Task Scheduler and create a new task.
- In the properties window that opens give the task an name.
- In the Trigger tab create a new trigger and select "On a new event". Set Log to
"System", source to the name you got from Event Viewer and Event ID to 27. Press OK. - Now go to the Actions tab a and create a new action. In the windows that opens select
"Start a program" and enterrundll32.exeas program
path anduser32.dll,LockWorkStationas arguments . - You may want to customize the task a bit further like disabling the fact that the
task will only run if the power is plugged in under the Conditions tab (mostly
relevant for laptops)
After doing this I recommend disconnecting your network cable to check if everything works as expected.
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
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I will try it. Thanks for very informative/applicable answer.
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:18
It worked at my home computer. I want to implement it at my office. I m using windows server 2008 as a server and i want to deploy this task to all my domain users. As every system has its own network card and source will be different for each computer. Is there anyway i can put universal source name for network disconnection or i have to go to each computer to create that task?
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:58
In that case you could switch the trigger from Basic to Custom. If you press new Event Filter and switch to "By source" you can select multiple sources. If you only have very few computer models you could check there event logs and see how the source is called and add them all.
– User025
Dec 1 at 15:07
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According to this answer: https://superuser.com/a/225251/950764 an event will be created when your connections drops. The ID will be 27 and the source depends on your network card. (the answer mentions "e1yexpress" but for me it is "e1dexpress")
This allows you to create and event in Task Scheduler that will execute when your connections drops.
- Open Event Viewer and filter for Events with the ID 27 and level "Warning" under
Windows Logs -> System.
- Now you should see events mentioning your network cards name and the text "Network
link is disconnected" (assuming this has been the case till now). Most importantly
you will now know the events source, which
you need to use for the scheduled task. - Open Task Scheduler and create a new task.
- In the properties window that opens give the task an name.
- In the Trigger tab create a new trigger and select "On a new event". Set Log to
"System", source to the name you got from Event Viewer and Event ID to 27. Press OK. - Now go to the Actions tab a and create a new action. In the windows that opens select
"Start a program" and enterrundll32.exeas program
path anduser32.dll,LockWorkStationas arguments . - You may want to customize the task a bit further like disabling the fact that the
task will only run if the power is plugged in under the Conditions tab (mostly
relevant for laptops)
After doing this I recommend disconnecting your network cable to check if everything works as expected.
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
27310
I will try it. Thanks for very informative/applicable answer.
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:18
It worked at my home computer. I want to implement it at my office. I m using windows server 2008 as a server and i want to deploy this task to all my domain users. As every system has its own network card and source will be different for each computer. Is there anyway i can put universal source name for network disconnection or i have to go to each computer to create that task?
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:58
In that case you could switch the trigger from Basic to Custom. If you press new Event Filter and switch to "By source" you can select multiple sources. If you only have very few computer models you could check there event logs and see how the source is called and add them all.
– User025
Dec 1 at 15:07
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
According to this answer: https://superuser.com/a/225251/950764 an event will be created when your connections drops. The ID will be 27 and the source depends on your network card. (the answer mentions "e1yexpress" but for me it is "e1dexpress")
This allows you to create and event in Task Scheduler that will execute when your connections drops.
- Open Event Viewer and filter for Events with the ID 27 and level "Warning" under
Windows Logs -> System.
- Now you should see events mentioning your network cards name and the text "Network
link is disconnected" (assuming this has been the case till now). Most importantly
you will now know the events source, which
you need to use for the scheduled task. - Open Task Scheduler and create a new task.
- In the properties window that opens give the task an name.
- In the Trigger tab create a new trigger and select "On a new event". Set Log to
"System", source to the name you got from Event Viewer and Event ID to 27. Press OK. - Now go to the Actions tab a and create a new action. In the windows that opens select
"Start a program" and enterrundll32.exeas program
path anduser32.dll,LockWorkStationas arguments . - You may want to customize the task a bit further like disabling the fact that the
task will only run if the power is plugged in under the Conditions tab (mostly
relevant for laptops)
After doing this I recommend disconnecting your network cable to check if everything works as expected.
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
27310
I will try it. Thanks for very informative/applicable answer.
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:18
It worked at my home computer. I want to implement it at my office. I m using windows server 2008 as a server and i want to deploy this task to all my domain users. As every system has its own network card and source will be different for each computer. Is there anyway i can put universal source name for network disconnection or i have to go to each computer to create that task?
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:58
In that case you could switch the trigger from Basic to Custom. If you press new Event Filter and switch to "By source" you can select multiple sources. If you only have very few computer models you could check there event logs and see how the source is called and add them all.
– User025
Dec 1 at 15:07
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
According to this answer: https://superuser.com/a/225251/950764 an event will be created when your connections drops. The ID will be 27 and the source depends on your network card. (the answer mentions "e1yexpress" but for me it is "e1dexpress")
This allows you to create and event in Task Scheduler that will execute when your connections drops.
- Open Event Viewer and filter for Events with the ID 27 and level "Warning" under
Windows Logs -> System.
- Now you should see events mentioning your network cards name and the text "Network
link is disconnected" (assuming this has been the case till now). Most importantly
you will now know the events source, which
you need to use for the scheduled task. - Open Task Scheduler and create a new task.
- In the properties window that opens give the task an name.
- In the Trigger tab create a new trigger and select "On a new event". Set Log to
"System", source to the name you got from Event Viewer and Event ID to 27. Press OK. - Now go to the Actions tab a and create a new action. In the windows that opens select
"Start a program" and enterrundll32.exeas program
path anduser32.dll,LockWorkStationas arguments . - You may want to customize the task a bit further like disabling the fact that the
task will only run if the power is plugged in under the Conditions tab (mostly
relevant for laptops)
After doing this I recommend disconnecting your network cable to check if everything works as expected.
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
27310
According to this answer: https://superuser.com/a/225251/950764 an event will be created when your connections drops. The ID will be 27 and the source depends on your network card. (the answer mentions "e1yexpress" but for me it is "e1dexpress")
This allows you to create and event in Task Scheduler that will execute when your connections drops.
- Open Event Viewer and filter for Events with the ID 27 and level "Warning" under
Windows Logs -> System.
- Now you should see events mentioning your network cards name and the text "Network
link is disconnected" (assuming this has been the case till now). Most importantly
you will now know the events source, which
you need to use for the scheduled task. - Open Task Scheduler and create a new task.
- In the properties window that opens give the task an name.
- In the Trigger tab create a new trigger and select "On a new event". Set Log to
"System", source to the name you got from Event Viewer and Event ID to 27. Press OK. - Now go to the Actions tab a and create a new action. In the windows that opens select
"Start a program" and enterrundll32.exeas program
path anduser32.dll,LockWorkStationas arguments . - You may want to customize the task a bit further like disabling the fact that the
task will only run if the power is plugged in under the Conditions tab (mostly
relevant for laptops)
After doing this I recommend disconnecting your network cable to check if everything works as expected.
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
27310
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
27310
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
27310
answered Dec 1 at 14:04
User025
27310
27310
I will try it. Thanks for very informative/applicable answer.
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:18
It worked at my home computer. I want to implement it at my office. I m using windows server 2008 as a server and i want to deploy this task to all my domain users. As every system has its own network card and source will be different for each computer. Is there anyway i can put universal source name for network disconnection or i have to go to each computer to create that task?
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:58
In that case you could switch the trigger from Basic to Custom. If you press new Event Filter and switch to "By source" you can select multiple sources. If you only have very few computer models you could check there event logs and see how the source is called and add them all.
– User025
Dec 1 at 15:07
add a comment |
I will try it. Thanks for very informative/applicable answer.
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:18
It worked at my home computer. I want to implement it at my office. I m using windows server 2008 as a server and i want to deploy this task to all my domain users. As every system has its own network card and source will be different for each computer. Is there anyway i can put universal source name for network disconnection or i have to go to each computer to create that task?
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:58
In that case you could switch the trigger from Basic to Custom. If you press new Event Filter and switch to "By source" you can select multiple sources. If you only have very few computer models you could check there event logs and see how the source is called and add them all.
– User025
Dec 1 at 15:07
I will try it. Thanks for very informative/applicable answer.
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:18
I will try it. Thanks for very informative/applicable answer.
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:18
It worked at my home computer. I want to implement it at my office. I m using windows server 2008 as a server and i want to deploy this task to all my domain users. As every system has its own network card and source will be different for each computer. Is there anyway i can put universal source name for network disconnection or i have to go to each computer to create that task?
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:58
It worked at my home computer. I want to implement it at my office. I m using windows server 2008 as a server and i want to deploy this task to all my domain users. As every system has its own network card and source will be different for each computer. Is there anyway i can put universal source name for network disconnection or i have to go to each computer to create that task?
– CYREX
Dec 1 at 14:58
In that case you could switch the trigger from Basic to Custom. If you press new Event Filter and switch to "By source" you can select multiple sources. If you only have very few computer models you could check there event logs and see how the source is called and add them all.
– User025
Dec 1 at 15:07
In that case you could switch the trigger from Basic to Custom. If you press new Event Filter and switch to "By source" you can select multiple sources. If you only have very few computer models you could check there event logs and see how the source is called and add them all.
– User025
Dec 1 at 15:07
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Welcome to Super User! Please note we are not a code-writing service, and questions seeking product recommendations are off-topic. Instead, post specific issues you are having with a script (for example), and folks may be able to help with that. Cheers!
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Also, just supposing hypothetically it happened to be in a corporate environment you wanted to enforce something like that, you may be better off pursuing non-technical avenues of approach.
– bertieb
Dec 1 at 13:49