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Finding a Process Which Sporadically Locks the Workstation

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hewagen
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Apr 29, 2021
Hi all,   A customer of mine recently reported an issue that some workstations sporadically lock while the user is working and asked if we could figure out the culprit. Here is the story.   F...
Updated Apr 29, 2021
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Nathan Buuck
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May 30, 2021

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! It would be interesting or perhaps even helpful to know the nature of the process you found that was making LockWorkStation call: was it an MDM product? Antivirus/antimalware? Some proprietary line of business app?