Re: 10 second Screen Saver

From: Steve (soravetz_at_whfund.org)
Date: 05/01/03


Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 12:08:26 -0700


This is in a Medical clinic enviroment where people
just walk away from their terminals - we need to invoke
a blank screen without them doing anything.

>-----Original Message-----
>"Steve" <soravetz@whfund.org> writes:
>
>> Does anyone know how to adjust the Screen Saver
>> to come on in less than 1 minute? I tried
>> "ScreenSaveTimeout" in the registry but it still
defualts
>> to one minute. This is in regards to a new Health Care
Law
>> concerning patient privatcy - so we need to blank the
>> screens.
>
>If you're running an NT-based system (Windows NT, Windows
2000,
>Windows XP) a best-practice for security is to lock your
workstation
>any time you are not using it by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL
and then the
>spacebar (in Windows XP you can press Windows key plus L
to do the
>same thing). This will require you to reenter your
password again to
>use the machine, so it may be overkill if someone is
actively sitting
>at the machine and just needs to blank the screen between
transactions
>rather than secure the computer.
>
>--
>Ryan D Johnson [MS]
>rjohnson@online.microsoft.com
>
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>.
>



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