Recently a message box has begun to appear on my screen.
My screen saver comes on after a few minutes of
inactivity. Then when I hit a key to bring back my
desktop I get a message box saying that "The computer is
in use and has been locked." It asks for my password. I
don't give it; instead I click on OK and the normal
working screen comes back.

I had been using this computer for several months before
this started happening. O, I am using Windows XP Home.

>-----Original Message-----
>Recently a message box has begun to appear on my
screen.
>My screen saver comes on after a few minutes of
>inactivity. Then when I hit a key to bring back my
>desktop I get a message box saying that "The computer is
>in use and has been locked." It asks for my password.
I
>don't give it; instead I click on OK and the normal
>working screen comes back.
>
>I had been using this computer for several months before
>this started happening. O, I am using Windows XP Home.
>
>.
>
Ok this should work. any place on your desktop right
click then go to properties. a window will apear that is
labled display properties. go to the screen saver tab and
uncheck where it says "On resume, password protect"

Go into screen saver settings, uncheck "on resume
password protect".


>-----Original Message-----
>Recently a message box has begun to appear on my
screen.
>My screen saver comes on after a few minutes of
>inactivity. Then when I hit a key to bring back my
>desktop I get a message box saying that "The computer is
>in use and has been locked." It asks for my password.
I
>don't give it; instead I click on OK and the normal
>working screen comes back.
>
>I had been using this computer for several months before
>this started happening. O, I am using Windows XP Home.
>
>.
>

To turn this off (I would personally recommend that you have a password set for your user account, and keep this feature on as it prevents others from
tampering with what you are working on when you leave your desktop for a while), you can read the following article. The article is focused on Windows
2000, but XP should have similar features.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/Sec.../w2kadm35.mspx

Hope it help. Thanks.

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Recently a message box has begun to appear on my screen.
My screen saver comes on after a few minutes of
inactivity. Then when I hit a key to bring back my
desktop I get a message box saying that "The computer is
in use and has been locked." It asks for my password. I
don't give it; instead I click on OK and the normal
working screen comes back.

I had been using this computer for several months before
this started happening. O, I am using Windows XP Home.




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