Locking Workstation

If you ever feel the need to lock your interactive session via PowerShell, here’s a function that can do this (and also illustrates how to use low-level API functionality):

function Lock-WorkStation {
 $signature = @"
 [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
 public static extern bool LockWorkStation();
"@
 
 $LockWorkStation = Add-Type -MemberDefinition $signature -Name Win32LockWorkStation -Namespace Win32Functions -PassThru
 $LockWorkStation::LockWorkStation() | Out-Null
}

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