PSTools

PSLoggedon

PSLoggedon is a tools designed to determine who is using the resources of a remote computer.

Download PSTools from dosc.microsoft.com

Unpack the zip archive into some folder on your machine. For example

C:\Users\eth1.ru\Software\PSTools

There will be a bunch of .exe files

We will concentrate on PsLoggedon

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Add this address to the PATH Environmental Variable

If you are not sure how to do it you are welcome to read our article «System Environmental Variable PATH»

When PATH is updated you can test it by writing pslogged on in your cmd

psloggedon

C:\Users\eth1.ru>psloggedon PsLoggedon v1.35 - See who's logged on Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com Users logged on locally: 3/24/2020 2:56:28 PM Domain\aredel.com No one is logged on via resource shares. C:\Users\eth1.ru>

In the example above we can see that there is only one local user with username aredel.com logged in

Normally it will give you your username + other usernames of anyone who is logged in locally or remotely

If you need to check remote PC logged users use \\hostname

C:\Users\eth1.ru>psloggedon \\remote-host

PsLoggedon v1.35 - See who's logged on Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com Users logged on locally: 3/20/2020 1:44:30 PM Domain\user9173182 3/24/2020 2:28:50 PM Domain\user9273579 Users logged on via resource shares: 3/24/2020 5:24:23 PM Domain\user9373579 C:\Users\eth1.ru>

If you are in a work network you can check the real name of your colleague by entering this username to MS Teams

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And ask this colleague to do something with the machine

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