How to make Windows 7 show user list on login screen, not just the last logged on user

I am running Windows 7 64-bit Professional, and have two user accounts on my computer. Problem is that the login screen only shows the last logged in user and an «other users» button which allows you to input username manually. Is there any way of reverting to showing a list of all the users instead?

Okay. I found out how to fix this issue. I know it’s been a couple years since this topic has been addressed (and most people have moved on to windows 8) but for those still on windows 7 that are tired of typing in the username every time you log on, here is the way to show user icons:

Disclaimer: This fix is not a hack. I’m not using any third party software. I am simply changing a security setting in the windows system. The longest part is finding the file. As much as I would like to say this will fix every computer, I cannot guarantee this will be the fix for your system. This fixed my problem because my setting just need to be disabled. That being said let’s move on.

As an admin (have to be in an administrator-privileged account) Click on the Start Button and the in the search bar at the bottom of the start menu type in «Edit Group Policy» and press enter. When the Local Group Policy Editor window pops up click on the following arrows in the left hand column to expand the lists to find the file to change.

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What’s the best way to see logged in users in Windows Server 2012?

Right now I use a powershell script to see the currently logged in users. But I don’t see if their session is idle, active or inactive. I can see when the session was started, that’s it. Is there an easy way to see how many users are currently logged in to the server I am logged in and see their status? It should not be remotely executed. I would like to avoid third party tools if possible.

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Use the query user command

Open the Task-Manager and see the users tab. There you will find a list of users and their status.

where 192.168.1.9 is the IP of the server

«quser» command will give you the active now users

the same result will give you the «qwinsta» command

Use quser or query user to check users connected

Use qwinsta or query session to check sessions connected

Also you can use the «UserLock» application to see which users logged in. By this 3rd party tool you can manage the session of the users as well as remote desktop sessions. It is a great tool in this case. I suggest you try this tool.

Its easy in Server 2016 when you are in a session:

Click the search glass bottom left on task bar

Type gateway in the box and this should bring up «Remote Desktop Gateway Manager»; select it.

Click on the «>» next to the RDS server you want to view (RDS-01) for most I guess, then select the monitoring folder

You can now see who is logged on, how long for, since what time and can disconnect them or set connection limits.

Please note you probably need certain admin rights to do this, but it works for me.

get list of logged on users on remote windows computer from a list computer

Wuld have used the old question if I were allowed to ask a follow up question:

My question is the same as here: Get Logged on Users from a List of Computer Names the answer is good but I dont know how the input computers.csv should be formatted.

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It (csv file) should be formatted as follows:

‘Computername’ is the column name. This can be derived from the code snippet as the Foreach-Object refers to the ComputerName property.

I found this one and modified it to my needs

OK. I know this question is an older one but I recently ran into this exact quandary where I had to pull all the users from a specific domain that had logged in to all the WORKSTATIONS on that domain. Here is what I came up with from a snippet of code that I found and modified fairly extensively. The script reads the list of workstations from a Workstation.CSV file and outputs to a nicely formatted .csv file that can be opened with excel.

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.

I had a snap-in in Windows Server 2003 that allowed me to see who was currently logged onto the domain. How can I do this in Windows Server 2008 R2? I am the administrator, so there is no privilege issue. Thanks for any help.

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There is no direct way to check the same if auditing is enabled you can check the DC event log to track the same.You can also use thrid party tool (PSLogggedON or ManageEngine )or script to check the same.

Hope this helps

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You can either scan the event id from the security log on the DC. You can utilize EventcombMT to read or search the particular event id from single server. The other way is using Pslogged on tool or some other method mentioned in the below article.

Awinish Vishwakarma — MVP — Directory Services

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Powershell script to see currently logged in users (domain and machine) + status (active, idle, away)

I am searching for a simple command to see logged on users on server. I know this one :

but this will not provide me the info I need. It returns : domain Manufactureer Model Name (Machine name) PrimaryOwnerName TotalPhysicalMemory

I run Powershell 3.0 on a Windows 2012 server.

gives me not the exact answers I need. I would love to see as well the idle time, or if they are active or away.

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In search of this same solution, I found what I needed under a different question in stackoverflow: Powershell-log-off-remote-session. The below one line will return a list of logged on users.

There’s no «simple command» to do that. You can write a function, or take your choice of several that are available online in various code repositories. I use this:

Since we’re in the PowerShell area, it’s extra useful if we can return a proper PowerShell object .

I personally like this method of parsing, for the terseness:

Note: this doesn’t account for disconnected («disc») users, but works well if you just want to get a quick list of users and don’t care about the rest of the information. I just wanted a list and didn’t care if they were currently disconnected.

If you do care about the rest of the data it’s just a little more complex: