Increasing the timout for login screen

[KevinW]

I have a specific situation where I could benefit from increasing the
amount of time the windows login screen stays up from the default 2
minutes to indefinitely.... I’m just not sure where thats set in the
registry.

Anyone ever play with this value?

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Hi there

When the console is sitting at the login screen and there is nobody logged
in to the session, the ".default" profile is the one that's loaded. This
branch isn't, as so many people assume, the settings for newly-created
users' profiles.

In the key "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop", you'll find a value
called ScreenSaveTimeOut. This is the value, in seconds, that you'll need
to modify.

Hope this helps

Oli

 

[KevinW]

Hi there

When the console is sitting at the login screen and there is
nobody logged
in to the session, the ".default" profile is the one that's
loaded. This
branch isn't, as so many people assume, the settings for
newly-created
users' profiles.

In the key "HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop", you'll
find a value
called ScreenSaveTimeOut. This is the value, in seconds, that
you'll need
to modify.

Hope this helps

Oli

Hmmm...

I’m not sure that value is for the login screen. Its set to 10
minutes which is what the default screensaver timeout is.

Here is what I am after. On my Citrix servers I want to extend the
time the login screen stays up for my thin clients that connect. as
it is configured now, thin client auto-connect into the server but if
no one is there to login, Windows closes their login screen after 2
minutes. The thin clients are set to automatically reattach back into
the server and it just creates this continuous process of starting and
closeing winlogon.exe and csrss.exe sessions. I want to set the
citrix servers so that the login screen just stays up until someone
logs in so there isn’t so much processesing of those two services all
the time.

Its a political situation here where users dont want to have to click
a profile on the thin client and just login when they are at the
station. they want to always be presented with a login screen.

Thanks
Kevin