Re: screensaver and group policy

From: Eric Perlin [MS] (ericperl@microsoft.com)
Date: 10/18/02 

From: "Eric Perlin [MS]" <ericperl@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:34:39 -0700

This was addressed in SP1.
What's the type of the value
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control
Panel\Desktop\ScreenSaverIsSecure? 

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"Mark Dubois" <mdubois@london.ca> wrote in message
news:37fe01c2761b$8bd51f70$95e62ecf@tkmsftngxs02...
> I have the same issue.  And I also find that policies are
> often not applied unless you run the gpupdate /force to
> apply them.  The Keys are the same and in the right
> location because the other settings are applied... just
> not the ScreenSaverIsSecure.  Has anyone else run into
> this and had a resolution?
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >What screen saver ?  It is not reading the right key,
> >but only using the old (NT 4 era) key.
> >
> >--
> >Roger Abell
> >MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
> >Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >
> >"Trevor" <tennis@scn.ca> wrote in message
> >news:28b601c244e5$fc4c3ed0$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
> >> I want to apply the screen saver to be password
> protected
> >> using a domain group policy.  When I enable that policy,
> >> it makes changes to this registry section
> >> HKCU\Softare\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control
> >> Panel\Desktop\ScreenSaverIsSecure.  This does not make
> the
> >> screen saver work.  You need to change the following
> >> registry item
> >> HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\ScreenSaverIsSecure.
> >> I think this is a problem with WinXP.
> >> I don't want to have to go to every machine to set this
> >> setting.  This happens with win2000 server and with
> winXP.
> >> Any ideas how to fix this problem.
> >> Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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