Re: No password option for screen saver

- This is a home pc so there is no domain.
- My account is the administrator.
- The "wait" and "on resume" are visible regardless if a screensaver i
sselected or not.
- The wait for _minutes is visible. The only option to chose is "return to
Welcome screen".
- If I select a screensaver then it will appear after the wait time
specified. However there is no password prompt it just returns to the
desktop.

Thanks,
Joe M.

"VanguardLH" wrote:

"Joe M." wrote in message
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"VanguardLH" wrote:

"Joe M." wrote ...

Upon inactivity I would like to activate a password protected
screensaver.
However my screensaver settings in the display properties does not
have a
password option. I've heard that if your user account has a
password
then the
screen saver will also, but this isn't the case. When my screen
saver runs
there's no password prompt. Can anyone help?

You mean an option to enter the password, or an option to *enable*
password protection when the screen saver activates?There is an "on
resume" option to enable password protection. There is no input
field
to specify the password as the same one gets reused that you used
to
login to your Windows account. Are you saying that somehow the
dialog
window shown at
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_stop_windows_xp_screensaver_asking_for_my_password.html
no longer shows the "on resume" password protect option (even if
grayed out) shown in the red circle in the picture?

Are you using the screen savers included in Windows or from a 3rd
party product?

Do you use auto-logging to automatically log into your Windows
account
when you boot the computer?

In answer to your questions:

- There is no option to enable password protection.
- It is not grayed out, it doesn't appear at all.
- I do not use automatic logging. We have 3 user accounts and you
must log
on in the welcome screen.
- These are with the Windows XP screensavers

Are you logged in under an admin-level account when you check the
screensaver settings?

Is(are) the host(s) in a domain? If so, group policy can dictate that
users cannot modify screensaver settings. That includes preventing
the users from changing the time to wait before activating the
screensaver and disabling password protection. Group policies are
recorded in the registry so it is also possible to enforce the same
behavior using a local security policy. I don't know what is the
registry setting. However, my recollection when using a group/local
policy to disable the password protect option (usually to force it
enabled) is that the option is greyed out to show that changing it is
disabled, not that it disappears completely from that dialog.

If you pick no screensaver (i.e., "(None)"), do the Wait and "On
Resume" option appear (but greyed out)? Do they appear (whether
greyed out or not) if you pick a different screensaver?


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