Dual Monitor blacks out the second monitor in locked mode

I am having the same issue. You answer is completely wrong! XP does it by default, so it must be built in. Win7 does not and seems to not have this option. What garbage.

I work for a Global Health Care company with hundreds of thousands of employees. This is a problem for us as well. Aesthetic, yes but a problem nonetheless.

Solution1:  Have your Help Desk remove end users second monitor because it's "broke".  Problem solved.

Solution2:  If it bothers you that much, go back to Windows XP.  Problem sovled.

You're right coldfire.  I missed the point.  Because the point is a waste of everyones talented time.  I only took the time to post about it because of the absurdity of the whole situation.  I'm honestly still shocked that people believe this is a "legit" issue.  I won't lose any sleep over it and neither should you. Educate your end users.  Be happy they're locking their computer when they get up for their coffee or their smoke break every 10 minutes.  And rest assured, that when they press that magic little key sequence "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "Delete", their beautiful picture of the beach they vacationed on, or their pet dog, or sweet little kid, will be happily staring them in the face . . . on both screens.

As someone working in a Data Center, I can say there -is- valid use for this feature from XP.  I like to have a second box full of monitors going, running admin mode so I don't lock myself out of a box during metric polls.  I run the various admin tools (ADUC, Powershell, EMC) on the main monitor, which was hidden when the PC is locked - and the tertiary monitors around it all display fullscreen metrics and performance data.  It's a fantastic setup to have, but I can't leave admin credentials lying unlocked in our DC (or anywhere, for that matter), so the fact that Microsoft surreptitiously removed this feature is incredibly annoying, and the sole reason we had one XP box remaining on an otherwise Win7 domain.

So get off your high horse, already.

That said, any new leads on this in terms of out-of-the-box solutions? I'd -really- rather not dedicate a box just for a heavily restricted and useless admin account to run metrics on.

FOR EVERONE, who has no idea what is being discussed here...

Please look at post #47 of this LINK because probably they need VISUAL help to understand things.

And so far until this day, there is no solution so I encourage everyone to stop posting rants here but instead email to MICROSOFT directly your concerns so you will be heard.