Re: screensaver password
From: Roger Abell (MVPNoSpam@asu.edu)
Date: 02/21/03
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From: Roger Abell <MVPNoSpam@asu.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:04:58 -0800
"shirley" <infl@flosafe.ca> wrote in news:04af01c2d905$cf8d6810
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> I need to put a screensaver password on my computer, but
> going through the conventional method of going in to the
> control panel and into screensavers does not give me any
> options to put a password in? Those instructions come
> from the HELP menu in Windows XP. ( I know how
> screensaver passwords work in other Windows environments,
> I just can't find how to set it up in XP)
>
In the NT family the screen saver passwords are those of the account that
is logged in. Some third-party screen savers (older ones) behave in a
downlevel Windows OS style, but the ones distributed with XP do not.
-- Roger Abell MS MVP (Windows Security)
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