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techten
January 13th 05, 03:55 AM
Can't get screen saver password protection to work. Check is applied to
"password protected" and a MS windows screen saver is selected...however when
the screen saver starts and the mouse is moved there is no protection. The
screen saver closes and full access to the desktop is available. There should
be a password required to close screeen saver.

What is the problem?

AlmostBob
January 13th 05, 03:00 PM
You have set a blank password, therefore it is bypassed
right click a blank area of the screen
properties
screen saver
checkbox password protected
then there is a button labelled "change"
click the button and change the password away from blank

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"techten" > wrote in message
...
> Can't get screen saver password protection to work. Check is applied to
> "password protected" and a MS windows screen saver is selected...however
when
> the screen saver starts and the mouse is moved there is no protection. The
> screen saver closes and full access to the desktop is available. There
should
> be a password required to close screeen saver.
>
> What is the problem?

techten
January 13th 05, 05:43 PM
Thanks Bob worked as you stated.

"AlmostBob" wrote:

> You have set a blank password, therefore it is bypassed
> right click a blank area of the screen
> properties
> screen saver
> checkbox password protected
> then there is a button labelled "change"
> click the button and change the password away from blank
>
> --
> Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
> spybot http://security.kolla.de
> AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
> Etrust/vet/CA 12 Month free trial (till Feb 2005)
> http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/
> Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
> http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
> Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
> Catalog of removal tools (1)
> http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
> Catalog of removal tools (2)
> http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?CID=40387
> Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
> links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use
>
> Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
> _
>
>
> "techten" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Can't get screen saver password protection to work. Check is applied to
> > "password protected" and a MS windows screen saver is selected...however
> when
> > the screen saver starts and the mouse is moved there is no protection. The
> > screen saver closes and full access to the desktop is available. There
> should
> > be a password required to close screeen saver.
> >
> > What is the problem?
>
>
>