Locking/unlocking primary and secondary at the same time

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Greetings!

I'm using multiplicity at work, and I need to lock both workstations every time I leave my desk. Is there functionality in the product to lock or unlock both the primary and secondary at the same time?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No. The whole point is that they are seperate PCs controled my the same keyboard/mouse. It's like a KVM switch.

A batch file might work.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Damn. That's the whole problem - I have to keep a second keyboard on my desk because I can't get the secondary machine to accept a ctrl-alt-del from the keyboard on my primary machine. Not that the program isn't still useful, but that is a major pain.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Use ctrl-alt-backspace on the secondary   


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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Sounds like you might need an updated keyboard driver on that secondary machine. I'm running 3 different workstations with multiplicity that have a total of 5 machines each. No problems here. But it would be nice to lock, unlock all at the same time. Then again I like my servers to be locked up tight.

Matt
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I understand wanting the computers to behave as separate but it would be really neat for people like me and the original poster to have a hotkey (is ctrl-alt-l taken?) that multiplicity uses to lock primary and all secondaries with one command. I know its only for the few of us that have to lock all of our screens alot but it would really be nice.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

That has actually been requested before. I know at the time Neil was part of that discussion so the developers have seen that request. I also know that there is testing going on with the next build to update the long awaited MAC build. So unless Neil snuck more in it won't be part of the updates for a little bit.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I believe it already works that way - unless a very recent update has made it possible.

I'm using a Vista primary and an XP Tablet Edition secondary.

When I place the mouse pointer on the Secondary and press Win+L, both machines lock the desktop for me...

When I press Ctrl+Alt+Del to unlock the primary and login, I can then press Ctrl+Alt+Del again then press Esc and log into the secondary. It's only one more keystroke which is understandable as the login screen probably can't be hooked like everything else for security reasons.

This thing is great!
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
FYI, I have XP Pro on both my primary & secondary, and Win + L locks just the secondary.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I hav a similar setup as #7 (tamathumper) with the same results.
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Yep! Looks like I spoke too soon!