How do I lock and force the user to re-enter one's windows password?

Question

I want to lock the accessing of current operating user, as if the user

clicked on Start → pointed to shutdown → click on LOCK

How to do that in C#?

Answer 1

http://jessn.blogspot.com/2009/05/lock-my-computer-programatically-in-c.html This article says it best:

A much better design that isn't hard coded to your windows system paths, etc:

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern void LockWorkStation();

Then just call LockWorkStation();