password protected screensaver

External Since: May 03, 2007 Posts: 1

I have initiated a password protected screensaver on a Win XP SP2 machine
that fails to protect much of the time--it will return to the desktop if you
press a key. The only reference I can find is an issue with SP1. The
registry reads correctly (1) in the Control Panel/desktop. Any advice?
thanks for any help

External Since: Mar 03, 2005 Posts: 2380

ckatz wrote:
> I have initiated a password protected screensaver on a Win XP SP2
> machine that fails to protect much of the time--it will return to
> the desktop if you press a key. The only reference I can find is
> an issue with SP1. The registry reads correctly (1) in the Control
> Panel/desktop. Any advice? thanks for any help

There is a period of time (I think the default is 5 seconds - although I
have increased that to 30 seconds on some laptops...) where the screensaver
lock is not 'in effect'. Once that time has passed - then the lock is
active.

If you wait more than 30 seconds (let the screensaver run) - does it work
every time?

You can use TweakUI to control that (or edit the registry value, etc.)

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