Re: lock computer option

From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 04:34:40 -0500

Check your settings here: Start/Run: control userpasswords

Change the way user log on or off: Use the Welcome Screen/Use FUS 

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Kelly
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"Dean" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:199301c47c4d$613202d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks, but I still want the blue welcome screen to come
> on for any passwords. I don't want the User Account box.
> Any ideas?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Dean wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>> i hope someone can help. previously, when my computer
>>> switched over to the screensaver and one came back to
> use
>>> it, it would bring them to the XP welcome screen. now,
> im
>>> getting an "unlock computer" message box instead of the
>>> blue screen although that option is turned on in user
>>> accounts. anyone know?
>>
>>In the Display Properties applet (Control Panel) on the
> Screensaver tab,
>>uncheck the box that says "On resume, password protect".
>>
>>Malke
>>-- 
>>MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
>>Elephant Boy Computers
>>www.elephantboycomputers.com
>>"Don't Panic!"
>>.
>>

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