There is now an app in the Control Panel called CardSpace (3.0.4506.30) the
purpose of which is to store users' login info into a database. Invoking
this app causes a sudden darkening of the screen as does Shutdown -- to my
knowledge, only Shutdown darkens the Windows desktop in this manner -- and
many if not most users will be frightened by this nonstandard app behavior.
Users will think Windows is shutting down and that they are going to lose
their unsaved work.

Whats the question?

On Jan 28, 5:04 pm, mbstone <mbst...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> There is now an app in the Control Panel called CardSpace (3.0.4506.30) the
> purpose of which is to store users' login info into a database. Invoking
> this app causes a sudden darkening of the screen as does Shutdown -- to my
> knowledge, only Shutdown darkens the Windows desktop in this manner -- and
> many if not most users will be frightened by this nonstandard app behavior.
> Users will think Windows is shutting down and that they are going to lose
> their unsaved work.

mbstone wrote:
> There is now an app in the Control Panel called CardSpace (3.0.4506.30) the
> purpose of which is to store users' login info into a database. Invoking
> this app causes a sudden darkening of the screen as does Shutdown -- to my
> knowledge, only Shutdown darkens the Windows desktop in this manner -- and
> many if not most users will be frightened by this nonstandard app behavior.
> Users will think Windows is shutting down and that they are going to lose
> their unsaved work.

I think you meant to post this to one of the Vista newsgroups. When you
do, make sure to include a question because I don't see one there.

Vista newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_account
microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan
microsoft.public.windows.vista.security


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"mbstone" wrote

> There is now an app in the Control Panel called CardSpace (3.0.4506.30)
> the
> purpose of which is to store users' login info into a database. Invoking
> this app causes a sudden darkening of the screen as does Shutdown -- to my
> knowledge, only Shutdown darkens the Windows desktop in this manner -- and
> many if not most users will be frightened by this nonstandard app
> behavior.
> Users will think Windows is shutting down and that they are going to lose
> their unsaved work.

What OS is this? What you are describing sounds like the secure desktop
feature in Windows Vista.

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