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A Windows Vista machine has a user called fourthcoffee\joberry logged on. Another user, fourthcoffee\henrikjensen logs on with Remote Desktop.

1. fourthcoffee\henrikjensen receives this message, and presses Yes:
   
2. The logged on user, fourthcoffee\joberry will see this popup on her desktop and press OK:
   
   While fourthcoffee\henrikjensen waits for fourthcoffee\joberry to respond, this message is displayed in his Remote Desktop window:
   
3. fourthcoffee\joberry will be disconnected from her session and the screen on the Windows Vista machine will display Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to log on:
   
4. If she presses Ctrl+Alt+Del she will see that she is just disconnected and not logged of:
   
5. The currently logged on user, fourthcoffee\henrikjensen can also see this if he opens Task Manager and displays processes from all users:
   
6. fourthcoffee\henrikjensen logs off from Remote Desktop, fourthcoffee\joberry can now press Ctrl+Alt+Del and log in again.

If fourthcoffee\joberry tries to log on before fourthcoffee\henrikjensen has logged of, the process happens in reverse.

1. fourthcoffe\joberry presses Ctrl+Alt+Del and logs on, she receives this message:
   
2. The prompt is presented to fourthcoffee\henrikjensen (logged on via Remote Desktop):
   
   While waiting for fourthcoffee\henrikjensen to reply, this message will display on fourthcoffee\joberry’s desktop:
   
3. fourthcoffee\joberry is logged on to her session and sees her desktop as it was when she was disconnected. fourthcoffee\henrikjensen is also still logged on. He has to reconnect, disconnecting fourthcoffee\joberry temporarily, to log off from his session.