Logoff Button

[garethEds]

HI there - a lazy user question here. Has anyone created a simple 'Logoff Button' application that can sit on the right hand side just above the clock? Or do you know of a free one that works?

 

I know it's lazy and users can go looking at the start menu - but just thought I'd ask.

 

Cheers

 

G

[siuko]

We have a shared Dekstop for staff and they have a Logoff button on the desktop (stops us having to explain how to find the logoff on the start bar lol)

 

It's just a shortcut to C:\Windows\System32\logoff.exe

[Rob_D]

This autoit script shold do what you want. You'd just need to compile it into an executable and set it to run a logon.

#include 
#include 
$G_Height = 50
$G_Width = 230

$B_Height = $G_Height - 10
$B_Width = $G_Width - 10
$WidthFromRight = $G_Width
$HeightFromBottom =  $G_Height + 41 ; 41 is the height of the Windows 10 taskabr 
$XPos = @deskTopWidth - $WidthFromRight 
$YPos = @deskTopHeight - $HeightFromBottom 
GUICreate('',$G_Width,$G_Height,$XPos,$YPos,$WS_POPUP,$WS_EX_TOPMOST)
   $RUN = GUICtrlCreateButton("Log Off", 5, 5, $B_Width, $B_Height,$BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON)
GUISetState()

While 1
   $array_msg = GUIGetMsg(1)
   Switch $array_msg[0]

   Case $RUN
       run ("shutdown /l") 
   EndSwitch
WEnd

[Protec]

I just use the shortcut built into Windows. Just press WIN + L. It doesn't log off (or signing out as they now call it) but it locks the computer.

[thimon]

We’ve got a shortcut pinned to everyone’s start menu for the shutdown.exe logoff command

 

[ass17]

The approach we took is to use OpenShell as our staff wanted to keep the Win7 start menu. And we intend to keep it that way indefinitely [emoji1][emoji1303]

[Simcfc73]

The approach we took is to use OpenShell as our staff wanted to keep the Win7 start menu. And we intend to keep it that way indefinitely [emoji1][emoji1303]

Us too. I like it and it works...no matter what people say.

[AJWhite1970]

Us three. Was going to remove it this summer and go proper .xml but decided life was too short and stuck with OpenShell for another year

[Jobos]

I never heard of OpenShell until this thread but been using Classic Shell for years without problems and as it happens just finished re-imaging the school to 1909 again with Classic Shell.

 

Could I ask what improvements OpenShell offers over Classic Shell and is it worth changing if I'm not having problems? To be honest I was half expecting Classic Shell not to work when I upgraded to 1909 but all was well with no problems at all

[AJWhite1970]

Same product but the performance is much better, no more laggy sub menus opening....

[DaveTheTech]

Classic Shell is no longer supported.

Open Shell is its successor - I think it was a fork of it?

[Jobos]

Thanks. Shame I didn't know about it before I imaged the school

[Primus]

Those of you who are making the start menu look like Win7 aren't there any concerns that it now looks so different to what users will see at home and elsewhere?

 

The UI has moved on at some point users need to adapt.

[AJWhite1970]

Yes there is an argument for it no longer being needed and is very out of date, but at the end of the day I have settled on a quick, clean and centrally managed start menu for students and teachers that gets the job done. I've gone even more retro and gone for the Windows XP experience...

 

[FishCustard]

Those of you who are making the start menu look like Win7 aren't there any concerns that it now looks so different to what users will see at home and elsewhere?

 

The UI has moved on at some point users need to adapt.

 

I deployed Open-Shell's Start Menu at my previous school and never got a single comment on it. People just figured it out - I presume if they noticed any difference they assumed it was just because the PCs at school were "work/education" versions of Windows 10.

[Primus]

I deployed Open-Shell's Start Menu at my previous school and never got a single comment on it. People just figured it out - I presume if they noticed any difference they assumed it was just because the PCs at school were "work/education" versions of Windows 10.

 

But where and when do you stop? I can understand initially if you'd moved to Windows 10 when it had only recently launched but we're now 5 years on. Obviously there's a way to manage change and you do want to avoid too many changes at once but by now we shouldn't be bending the UI back to a product that launched in 2009.

[Norphy]

Yes there is an argument for it no longer being needed and is very out of date, but at the end of the day I have settled on a quick, clean and centrally managed start menu for students and teachers that gets the job done. I've gone even more retro and gone for the Windows XP experience...

 

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That’s not Windows XP, that’s Windows 2000! XP was the first with the split start menu, which then broke out like that when you hovered above All Programs

[AJWhite1970]

You're right!!! I'd forgotten all about that....

 

[Primus]

Guys, it's time to let go, it's ok you can be brave and move forwards to the GUI that has been around for over 5 years now...

[AJWhite1970]

Lets just have a distance restricted hug and agree that there is more than one way to do this and at the end of the day if your users press start and find the app they are wanting to run then it's working

[Norphy]

Guys, it's time to let go, it's ok you can be brave and move forwards to the GUI that has been around for over 5 years now...

 

I have nothing against changing to a new UI when there are actually improvements (for example, although this is still controversial I think the ribbon is the best thing to have ever happened to Office) but when a change is such a retrograde in functionality (see Windows 8/8.1 start menu), why shouldn't people try and go back to what's better? The Windows 10 start menu is just about acceptable but it still isn't good. The one that came with Windows 7 is still the best, in my opinion.

[Primus]

Lets just have a distance restricted hug and agree that there is more than one way to do this and at the end of the day if your users press start and find the app they are wanting to run then it's working

 

Of course there's more than one way to do things but you're moving backwards to a GUI that students and staff will not use anywhere else, the new start menu is what they will be used to now since they'll be using it at home and will have been for some time!

[Primus]

I have nothing against changing to a new UI when there are actually improvements (for example, although this is still controversial I think the ribbon is the best thing to have ever happened to Office) but when a change is such a retrograde in functionality (see Windows 8/8.1 start menu), why shouldn't people try and go back to what's better? The Windows 10 start menu is just about acceptable but it still isn't good. The one that came with Windows 7 is still the best, in my opinion.

 

But as mentioned your staff and students won't be using Windows 7 at home and probably not for quite some time so they're already used to the new UI.

[Zammo]

The start menu is basically dead anyway. The number of apps that are not ran through the browser has shrunk so much.

[Simcfc73]

Like de ja vu this.