How do I set a screensaver password?

[Moonbarker Osbourne]

Woof! *wags tail*

This may make me sound stupid, but how do I set screensaver password? In
start/settings/control panel/display screen saver, I see the "on resume
password protect" checkbox, but I can't find how to set the pasword

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Doesn't it just use your user login password? Have you tried that? I don't
think the intent here is for you to set a special password just for resume.

 

[Moonbarker Osbourne]

By "user login password" do you mean when I turn my comp on? I've never done
that, have never had even the slightest need for it.

All I want to do is to know how to set a password on disabling the
screensaver like what it was in earlier versions of Windows

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I think you do one password for both or no password for both. To use a
password for resume you will need to use one for the login. It may be that
the blank password will work with resume but I have always used a password
and just don't know. Hopefully someone who does will chime in.

 

[Derail]

By "user login password" do you mean when I turn my comp on? I've never done
that, have never had even the slightest need for it.

All I want to do is to know how to set a password on disabling the
screensaver like what it was in earlier versions of Windows

There isn't a "password protect" checkbox like there was in Win9x.
Colin is correct, when you check the box "on resume password protect",
it will bring you to the login screen like the one you see when the
computer powers on. To add a password to your account, you need to go
to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts then click your username
and click the create password button.

Cheers
~Derail

 

[VanguardLH]

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Woof! *wags tail*

This may make me sound stupid, but how do I set screensaver
password? In
start/settings/control panel/display screen saver, I see the "on
resume
password protect" checkbox, but I can't find how to set the pasword

The same password is used for the screensaver as was used when you
logged into your Windows session. Perhaps you never bothered to
specify a password which means its value is blank, so use a blank
password. If you used auto-logging (i.e., auto-login when Windows
starts) then you are automatically logging under your account and
whatever password is assigned to that account's login is the same one
you use for the screensaver. Go under User Accounts in Control Panel
to change your password (but you will have to know what is the current
or old one).

 

[Moonbarker Osbourne]

OK, thanx

There isn't a "password protect" checkbox like there was in Win9x.
Colin is correct, when you check the box "on resume password protect",
it will bring you to the login screen like the one you see when the
computer powers on. To add a password to your account, you need to go
to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts then click your username
and click the create password button.

Cheers
~Derail

 

[Moonbarker Osbourne]

OK, thanx

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The same password is used for the screensaver as was used when you
logged into your Windows session. Perhaps you never bothered to
specify a password which means its value is blank, so use a blank
password. If you used auto-logging (i.e., auto-login when Windows
starts) then you are automatically logging under your account and
whatever password is assigned to that account's login is the same one
you use for the screensaver. Go under User Accounts in Control Panel
to change your password (but you will have to know what is the current
or old one).