Re: Keyboard shortcut for screensaver

Locking your worksation does hide the desktop.

windowskey + L

If you are ambitious:
http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/archive/2004/10/04/237723.aspx

For us lazy people:
http://www.starfishbay.com/handything/basics.shtml

or
http://embedsoft.tripod.com/ABossScreen.html

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"Susan S" <SusanS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I guess the better question is.....how do I create a shortcut to my
> screensaver???
>
> "Susan S" wrote:
>
>> But how do I set a hotkey for the shortcut to the screensaver. I just
>> want a
>> shortcut to hide my screen if someone walks in that I don't want seeing
>> what's on my screen. I can't find the program to even set a hotkey
>> for.....
>>
>> "David Candy" wrote:
>>
>> > You can't. If you just want to look at the pretty pictures just create
>> > a shortcut to the screensaver and set a hotkey for the shortcut (see
>> > help on how to set hotkeys). But this is the screensaver acting as a
>> > normal program (that draws pretty things) not as a screensaver.
>> >
>> > Winkey + L is the security hotkey.
>> >
>> > --
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archives/_comment/001075.html
>> > =================================================
>> > "Susan S" <SusanS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:F6EDF985-7701-465F-94CC-44DB0B6B1DA8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > How do I create a keyboard shortcut to activate my screensaver?
>> >


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