Lock Computer using DellDirect Button

[NexTerren]

There's a small button on my laptop, that looks like a house. As it turns out this is the DellDirect media center button. Using Autoit, I followed a quick tutorial that showed how to make the button bring up any program (it involved a very simple one-lined RUN code, and then putting this code where the DellDirect program was with the same file name), and it works fine.

However, I was wanting to change the script so it locked the computer--in the same way that the Vista start menu "lock" does; sending you to the home screen, requesting that you pick your username/password without powering the laptop down, or sending it into hibernation.

Does anyone know what script I'd replace my current code with to do this?

Thanks!

[Andreik]

There's a small button on my laptop, that looks like a house. As it turns out this is the DellDirect media center button. Using Autoit, I followed a quick tutorial that showed how to make the button bring up any program (it involved a very simple one-lined RUN code, and then putting this code where the DellDirect program was with the same file name), and it works fine.

However, I was wanting to change the script so it locked the computer--in the same way that the Vista start menu "lock" does; sending you to the home screen, requesting that you pick your username/password without powering the laptop down, or sending it into hibernation.

Does anyone know what script I'd replace my current code with to do this?

Thanks!

Look here

[NexTerren]

Alright, thanks for that code.

However is there a way to use the Window's locked screen?

[ProgAndy]

This needs just one DLL call

DllCall("user32.dll","dword","LockWorkStation")