Re: "Undoing" the locking of a screensaver on WinXP.

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Howdie!

geoff.koch@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I can't edit the screensaver section because it has been blanked out
via a policy, but is there any way of undoing this?

I realise the chances are rather slim, but it's really getting on my
nerves ;-)

If you get the policies via Active Directory (because you are on a domain): you can't. You need to ask your domain administrator to disable the policy for you - you can't do it yourself.

Even if you're local admin, you can't just disable it, since the Group Policies get refreshed every 90-120 minutes by default. So go and ask your domain admin very nicely - he/she might help you with that ;)

cheers,

Florian
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