Re: how do i set a screensaver password???

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/02/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 20:54:13 -0500

Hi,

You don't set a password for the screensaver, you set a password for your
user account then set the system to display the welcome screen on resume.
This forces the user to enter a password to get access to the system. If you
had just set a SS password (ala Win98), then this is easily defeated by
rebooting the machine. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
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"Jose B." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1711701c41847$2fe6b550$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> i've been really busy at work and college and i leave my
> pc on becuase i run a FTP. and my little brothers and
> sisters gets on my pc which i've gone lately. i wanna set
> a screensaver password atleast they wont know it and they
> wouldnt dare to turn it off, so i go to the screensaver
> page and i cant seem to find where to type in a password,
> why is this different from os 98? i dont use a password
> for my adm. account and if i make one can i still auto
> log on it? or will windows make a second adm. account
> becuase i know my first adm account will now be only
> access on safemode, i dont want this....please some must
> know how to get passed this

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