Re: Adjusting Time-out Setting for Inactivity

From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:28:11 -0700

Yes.

Right click the Desktop | Properties | Screen Saver tab |
Wait: | Adjust the time setting

Wait:
[[Specifies how much idle time must elapse before the selected screen saver
is displayed.]]

Or get rid of the screen saver password.

Right click the Desktop | Properties | Screen Saver tab |
UNSelect the On resume, password protect check box.
If Fast User Switching is turned on, UNSelect the On resume, display Welcome
screen check box.
Apply | OK

On resume
[[Specifies whether the logon window is displayed when you resume using the
computer after the screen saver has started running. If logging on requires
a password, you will have to type the password when you resume work.]] 

-- 
Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:cMadnQBQcPzEInDcRVn-2A@comcast.com,
Toby Zidle <tobyz7@comcast.net> hunted and pecked:
> Is there any way to adjust the time allowed for inactivity before
> Windows XP pulls up the User Login screen?
>
> It seems to me that I have to log in again (with password) about
> every 5 minutes if I have been inactive.
>
> Often I am doing nothing more than listening to streaming music (via
> Rhapsody or other source) while I work on a non-computer task.  I
> want my screen to be active so that I can glance at a song title on
> the music application window.  In about 5 minutes (or the length of
> two songs) I lose the application window and am sent to a User Login
> window where I enter my password ONE MORE TIME to see the application
> window again.
>
> I'd like to reset the time-out parameter to something like 30
> minutes.  How can I do this?
>
>
> Toby

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