Firedaemon Technologies Blog Avoiding Session 0 Auto Logout with FireDaemon Pro and AutoIT

Check out the FireDaemon Session 0 Viewer. It supersedes the method of switching to an remaining on Session outlined below.Session 0 is the default Windows session where interactive FireDaemon Pro services are run. You can use the Interactive Services Detection Service prompt or the FireDaemon Pro Switch To Session 0 button to switch to Session 0 from your currently logged in desktop. Irrespective of whether you are at your machine's physical console or you RDP into your server, Session 0 will automatically log you off if there is no mouse or keyboard activity seen after 60 seconds or so. To get around this you can use FireDaemon Pro in conjunction with AutoIT to inject synthetic mouse movements and mouse clicks into Session 0. Note that you cannot RDP directly into Session 0 nor return to Session 0 directly if your RDP session was closed. Note that this technique may work with Team Viewer and other similar remote control applications (but you will need to test them). So here's what you need to do:Download and install FireDaemon ProDownload and install AutoITCreate an AutoIT script in a text editor (eg. Notepad) and save the script in the folder of your choice (eg. C:\AIScripts). We have called the script: s0-keys.au3While (1)MouseMove(10,10);MouseClick("left");Sleep(30000);WEnd;This script is really simple. It moves the mouse to certain X and Y coordinates and clicks the left mouse button. The script then sleeps for 30 seconds and does it all over again. You can adjust these settings as you feel necessary but don't make the Sleep too low (eg. less than 10 seconds) as the script will run again rapidly and you might find you have lost control of your mouse!Now create the following FireDaemon Pro service copying the contents of the screen shot below. Install the service, then switch to Session 0 and you will find you are no longer automatically logged off Session 0!