Screen saver setting goes away 1

[isguyatlanta]

I have a user who has a password on the screen saver and it seems to go away about every week or two. No pattern can be found, the machine is SP2 and has been re service packed. SFC has been run as well. After we reset the configuration it works properly for a while. The user is not changing it.

 

[JLSigman]

Could it be that someone else is getting on to their computer and changing it? My former employer had a bad problem with the overnight cleaning crew messing around on the computers, until we all put BIOS passwords on the machines. Jennifer Sigman
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[isguyatlanta]

Nope, it's a laptop and she takes it with her, but I think we might set a password to see.

 

[Newposter]

Does the password only go away, or the screen saver? I find that randomly (maybe once a month or two), I click the screen saver when I leave my desk for awhile, and I get a message that "No active screen saver can be found", and it prompts me to set one. I have a password-protected screen saver, and we don't know what causes this. It usually happens to the guy in the office next to mine, so we think it's a network issue (does spyware trip this?). Newposter
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."

 

[isguyatlanta]

It changes from the selected screen saver to <none> with the password option stil selected. No errrors.

 

[Newposter]

OK, that happens to several of us at work with Win2K Pro, at the same time and during a time when we're logged into the corporate network and the machines are not left unattended. When I leave my desk I punch the Screen Saver button on the MS-Office 2K Pro toolbar, and that's when I get the same problem you do. It's random and unknown why, but I suspect it's a network problem. Both of us have Dell Dimension 4100 PCs with Pentium III-933 MHz, vintage Dec 2000. Our MIS guy doesn't know why. Hasn't happened to me in about 2 months. Newposter
&quot;Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.&quot;

 

[netwalker1]

try this in the Registry :
1- Start Menu -> Run -> type regedit
2- under this key : HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
3- search for this key : ScreenSaverIsSecure and ensure its value = 1


Test and comment please ,,,
Eng.Mohamed Farid
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