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I would like to disable the lock screen after disconnecting from a remote desktop session in Windows 10.

Either natively, or with something like a .exe shortcut to disconnect from the session on the target machine.

Thorstein Nilsen
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In the end of your RDP session, open the Command prompt as Admin and:

tscon 1 /dest:console

when conected to the local console (using the /admin)

LP0
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Based on some work by subcoder, Uramanathan, Duncan, and Jimadine in another question where the answer was actually off-topic, I created a scheduled task that runs when closing/disconnecting the RDP connection the normal way (e.g. closing the RDP window). I'm reposting the answer here where it is firmly on-topic.

The task is triggered by the Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational event log getting a logoff event (EventID=24). Then it runs a simple command whenever a user logs off. The command gets the query session output which looks like:

SESSIONNAME       USERNAME                 ID  STATE   TYPE        DEVICE
 services                                    0  Disc
>rdp-tcp#0         Matt                      2  Active
 console                                     5  Conn
 rdp-tcp                                 65536  Listen

It searches for %USERNAME% (in my case "Matt") and gets the ID column for that row. It passes the ID to the tscon command with %k /Dest:console, which unlocks the screen for the logged in user. This command probably only works if the user logging in remotely is the same user logged in locally, but I haven't tested.

Here's a task scheduler XML to import. The Author and UserId elements are removed and will be automatically filled in with your user when you import the task.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.2" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
  <RegistrationInfo>
    <Date>2022-02-10T11:17:45.9347484</Date>
    <URI>\Unlock remote screen</URI>
  </RegistrationInfo>
  <Triggers>
    <EventTrigger>
      <Enabled>true</Enabled>
      <Subscription>&lt;QueryList&gt;&lt;Query Id="0" Path="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational"&gt;&lt;Select Path="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational"&gt;*[System[Provider[@Name='Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager'] and (EventID=24)]]&lt;/Select&gt;&lt;Suppress Path="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational"&gt;*[UserData[EventXML[Address="LOCAL"]]]&lt;/Suppress&gt;&lt;/Query&gt;&lt;/QueryList&gt;</Subscription>
    </EventTrigger>
  </Triggers>
  <Principals>
    <Principal id="Author">
      <LogonType>InteractiveToken</LogonType>
      <RunLevel>HighestAvailable</RunLevel>
    </Principal>
  </Principals>
  <Settings>
    <MultipleInstancesPolicy>Parallel</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
    <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>true</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
    <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>true</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
    <AllowHardTerminate>true</AllowHardTerminate>
    <StartWhenAvailable>false</StartWhenAvailable>
    <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
    <IdleSettings>
      <StopOnIdleEnd>true</StopOnIdleEnd>
      <RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle>
    </IdleSettings>
    <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <Hidden>false</Hidden>
    <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
    <WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
    <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT1H</ExecutionTimeLimit>
    <Priority>7</Priority>
  </Settings>
  <Actions Context="Author">
    <Exec>
      <Command>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe</Command>
      <Arguments>/C "for /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims= " %i in ('query session ^| findstr "%USERNAME%"') do tscon %k /Dest:console"</Arguments>
      <WorkingDirectory>%USERPROFILE%</WorkingDirectory>
    </Exec>
  </Actions>
</Task>
Matt Chambers
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