Comments on: Shortcut to Switch User Accounts in Windows XP and Vista – tsdiscon.exe

By: Occasional Drivel» Fast User Switching not so fast in Vista – Occasional Drivel

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:06:54 +0000

[...] The first option is free, and it comes courtesy of Quinn Lewis: Quinn pointed me to a hack using a utility that comes with Vista called TsDiscon.exe. Creating a shortcut to this utility and adding a custom keyboard shortcut will allow you to automatically jump to the welcome screen. Apparently this trick doesn’t work for everyone, but it worked perfectly for me. If you want to give it a try there is a tutorial on how to do it over at The Winhelponline Blog. [...]

By: Magician

Magician — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:25:47 +0000

I don’t have the tsdiscon.exe in the System32 folder…what should I do?

By: nite

nite — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:41:54 +0000

thanks for the info, this was very helpful

By: Kevin Gordon

Kevin Gordon — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:19:05 +0000

Been looking for a solution like this for a while now! Thank you very much! Works perfectly

By: Matthew Jaggard

Matthew Jaggard — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:14:12 +0000

This file is not there in my version (Vista Home Premium) of windows. Is it a business only feature?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:40:41 +0000

Hi Gerard, In Windows Vista, tsdiscon.exe certainly saves a mouse click. You don’t have to click the “Switch User” (which you need to click when using Winkey + L)

Tsdiscon.exe goes directly to the screen where the list of users are displayed.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:47:23 +0000

If you are a frequent user of the Switch User feature in Windows, you should know “Windows key”+”L”. for each access.