Power button and lid close to log off windows

Is it possible to change something in Windows 7 to log off users when they close the lid or hit the power buttton.

I have a Dell Windows 7 64bit Pro machine that has 4 other accounts besides my own. It annoys me to no end that no one ever logs off thier account. Id like to solve this by having the power button and lid close log them off windows. Not sure why it annoys me so much.

Let me know if you have any ideas,

Thanks,

Greg

 

It probably annoys you because you want control. Could you set it to 'Hibernate'? That should force a log-off.

 

You can also set screensaver to return to the logon screen.

 

One of my concerns is running out of resources constantly when having 4 profiles constantly running programs like netflix, and Wow. Id love to have the power button or closing the lid force close everything running, Log them off, than put the computer to sleep. Then, upon opening the lid, have the computer back to the log in screen.

Maybe im crazy here, but i think that is the ideal way to have the computer set up. Maybe a script could be written?

 

You can configure both - the lid and the power button actions - to "shutdown" in the power settings.

Michael

 

Maybe you can script the log off and have it scheduled to run when appropriate power event is triggered . A concern would be what happens if the user is prompted for something (such as saving a file before closing an editor). If this is done when the user closes the lid, they won't know anything about it.

 

It's possible to configure that the power button/lid will put the computer to sleep or hibernate and shutdown.

You just need to change it in the power setting's on windows,
If you don't know how to i can explain it to you.
And if you have a third party software like i have-"Lenovo power manager"
Then change it from there aswell.

 

On my laptop the power button put's the computer to hibernate.

 

The issue isn't configuring the computer to sleep or hibernate on a power event. It's causing an actual log off on such a power event along with all the other actions that happen on a real logoff. We have the same issue at work, where files won't replicate on the network because users don't log off, just lock and walk away or sleep/hibernate a month at a time. Just because you see a login screen when you power back on does not mean that an actual log off process happened.

 

Shutting down a system will log off all users (all programs will be closed, open files won't be saved, so the users will know what will happen next time if they don't logoff).