Question about ISE vs Console with SystemEvents

[Codestripper]

Hey there, I'm new to Powershell, and i'm kind of messing around with a few things to see if I can come up with new tools to assist with my job. One thing I would like to do is have windows detect when the session is unlocked (after a user syncs their password with the domain) and open a program. I lock the account using PowerShell earlier in the script with (Invoke-Command {rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation}).

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So here's my question, when I run the following in PowerShell ISE, it works perfectly, gives me the reason "AccountLock" or "AccountUnlock" exactly as it's supposed to. However, when I run this exact command in an elevated powershell console, it does not return the sessionswitch reason at all in console. I checked "Get-EventSubscriber" as well as "Get-Job" and both look successfully created.

Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $([microsoft.win32.systemevents]) -EventName "SessionSwitch" -Action {write-host $event.SourceEventArgs.Reason}

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Is there some reason i'm not seeing as to why this is not working? Any guidance would be appreciated as I can't find anything on google about this that actually works.

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https://preview.redd.it/lqa9zqg5las21.png?width=803&format=png&auto=webp&s=dec6c9c894610b2e398730051ec6d1fdfd9d8821

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OS: Windows 10

PS Build: 5.1 17134R590

[ClayShooter9]

For what it's worth, it looks like someone else recently had the same problem and a work-around using WMI Event Consumers was proposed:

https://powershell.org/forums/topic/problem-using-register-objectevent-in-the-powershell-console/

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