HOW 2 LOCK DESKTOP

From: sgopus (fredd@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/18/02


From: "sgopus" <fredd@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:07:21 -0800

Please take your caps lock off, thanks.

Unless your willing to password protect your screensaver
and give it zero minutes to activate, you can't protect me
with a password, it's too easy to bypass.

So with that said, do this.
Set your screen saver to activate upon boot up, zero
minutes to wait, insert a password to protect the screen
saver, and Voila nobody can get past the screen saver
without the password, You can and when you do, reset the
time to a more reasonable period of waiting, then reset it
to zero when you are getting ready to leave your pc..

>-----Original Message-----
>HOW CAN I LOCK MY COMPUTER FROM OTHER USERS. THERE IS
>CURRENTLY NO NETWORK... AND I HAVE WINDOWS MILLENIUM.
THE
>CURRENT WINDOWS PASSWORD CAN BE BYPASSED BY SIMPLY
>CANCELING PASSWORD.
>
>WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
>
>THANX,
>DAN-O
>.
>



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