Adrian Tunley said:
Is there any way of preventing the Screen Saver starting
when running a presentation in full screen. (The users
cannot turn off a screen saver a this option is removed
by a policy).
Using Powerpoint 2000
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...soft.public.powerpoint&as_scoring=d&lr=&hl=en
has some information on this.
The upshot is this, according to John Langhans, Microsoft Supportability
Program Manager, Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows:
<quote>
PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking for.
If PowerPoint could override secure group policy objects (GPO), they
wouldn't be very secure. One workaround is to make sure that your
presentations are designed in a way that encourage some kind of user input
within the specified time set by the GPO. The solutions, of course, are for
users which need the capability to run slide shows which will be inactive
for long periods of time, to either have their GPO changed or to have their
admin set up special accounts with different a GPO (that doesn't force
slide show so soon) and allow presenters to use these accounts when
delivering slide shows.
I won't include my usual request for customers to send in suggestions to
get this behavior changed in PowerPoint since PowerPoint is doing exactly
what it should be when such a GPO is set. To do anything else (even if it
was possible) would be a major violation Microsoft's committment to its
Trustworthy Computing Initiative.
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