How can I screen capture a Windows 7 desktop and login screen? (i.e. remote monitoring)

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My company has about 50 - 60 machines that we need to manage remotely.

They are set to automatically login but I'd like to perform the following activities:

  • Capture screenshot (for diagnostic purposes, if something isn't working)
  • Start/stop/kill processes
  • Start/stop/kill services
  • Reboot machine

This seems simple enough but I'd like to get information on the best approach for doing this. My biggest problem is capturing a screenshot "no matter what is going on". For example, if I write a Windows Service, it can't capture the desktop session screen or the login screen.

EDIT: I've prefer to make this a Windows Service so it can run even if the user isn't logged in (i.e. if a problem occurs with the auto-login) but that doesn't seem possible. Furthermore, I'd also like to capture a screen if somebody RDPs in the machine. Basically, I want to know exactly what is going on with each machine and monitor it remotely.

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Remote Capture Screen Shots

Boxcutter will do this (I dont know about the login screen though, however in theory if you run it with PSExec below it should)

Start/stop/kill processes & Start/stop/kill services

PSExec, PSList, PSKill, PSService all part of SysInternals will work here

Reboot machine

run shutdown command via PSExec or run shutdown command with -m flag and the PC name you want to shutdown.

PSTools and remote shutdown do require / prefer the machines be on the same Domain as your PC and you must have admin rights to the PC's in question