microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

- 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
> news:DC79CBBF-E959-4991-BE54-8EE00E53253B@microsoft.com...
> >
> > "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?
>
>