How to unlock a Vista workstation

We have disabled "fast user switching" for our Vista machines in our office.
In the past XP will allow an administrator open a machine, but now Vista does not seem to allow this.
If a Vista machine is blocked and there are no quick change how an administrator can unlock said user machine without turning it off...?

Hello Gary,.

There is no 'simple' way to disable the fast user switching and no UI for this feature of Vista. This is normal. How you have disabled it? Through Group Policy? Editing the registry?

Line bottom... the only way to return to the login screen of Ctrl + Alt + Delete in your situation is completely shut down the computer and restart it. Theresa
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