Switch user button for objectdock

April 11, 2003 2:34 PM from

First of all, this site has been a great help so far for the new look of my desktop (I thought it was rather boring and could use some work)
I was wondering about something though :

I've seen ways to add a button to log out and reboot the computer, which both work fine, but is there a way to add a shortcut to for example objectdock for the Windows XP Fast User Switching option? (Clicking on the button won't log you off but keeps you logged on and shows the graphical logon screen of windows XP, so more then one user can be logged on at once)
I haven't been able to find a way to do this (I did find a few nice icons for it but that's only half the job

Any help would be appreciated.

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Reply #1 April 12, 2003 6:12 AM from

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Could it by any chance have something to do with the logoff.exe command? Just plain using the command (or linking an icon to it for that matter) simply runs the old logoff procedure (not even the one that returns you to the graphical user logon screen, but perhaps a variable added to it might make it work differently. I was unable to find much on that subject on google though

Reply #2 April 12, 2003 12:05 PM from

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I am using a program called PowerControl to do this. It has many features and came with some nice png images for its features like: Hibernate, Lock, Log Off, Log Out, Restart, Shutdown, Stand By and Turn off. I think I got this from WinCustomize ObjectDock section. It works great.

Reply #3 April 12, 2003 1:06 PM from

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Thanks for the reply James Rankin.
I am using Objectdock as well so it'd fit right in.
I tried to download it a second ago but got an error message, the information did however state that it was downloaded 6 times today already, so I'll just have to give it a try later on

Reply #4 April 12, 2003 7:56 PM from

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It worked perfectly, thanks once again

Back to the libraries to dig around for other things I'd like to add to my puter.
(system tray thingie, move-able start menu, and whatever else I think of along the way

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