SendHotkey not working when screen is locked

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I am working on an Uipath project in which I have used ‘SendHotKey’ activity to send ctrl,shift and del special keys to clear the browsing history of Chrome browser. I scheduled it in Orchestrator to run at specific times with an unattended robot. It runs good when the system is unlocked but when the screen is locked, the process does not execute successfully.
Any help to fix this would be great.

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Hi,

Can you try SendWindowMessages option?

BTW, I suppose orchestrator unlocks locked-screen before start to run process if you use service mode (Enterprise edition). Which version and mode do you use?

Regards,

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Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I use UiPath 2020.6.0 Community License Edition. Is that why i have this issue?
I tried SendWindowMessages option also, but it didn’t help.

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Hi,

Community edition cannot unlock locked-screen because of user mode.
As another approach, can you try Open Browser and Navigate To as the following?

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note: url is “chrome://settings/clearBrowserData”

Regards,

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Thank you very much!!!
It did work…

Regards,
Lissi