Adjusting Time-out Setting for Inactivity

[Toby Zidle]

Is there any way to adjust the time allowed for inactivity before Windows XP
pulls up the User Login screen?

It seems to me that I have to log in again (with password) about every 5
minutes if I have been inactive.

Often I am doing nothing more than listening to streaming music (via
Rhapsody or other source) while I work on a non-computer task. I want my
screen to be active so that I can glance at a song title on the music
application window. In about 5 minutes (or the length of two songs) I lose
the application window and am sent to a User Login window where I enter my
password ONE MORE TIME to see the application window again.

I'd like to reset the time-out parameter to something like 30 minutes. How
can I do this?


Toby

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Yes.

Right click the Desktop | Properties | Screen Saver tab |
Wait: | Adjust the time setting

Wait:
[[Specifies how much idle time must elapse before the selected screen saver
is displayed.]]


Or get rid of the screen saver password.

Right click the Desktop | Properties | Screen Saver tab |
UNSelect the On resume, password protect check box.
If Fast User Switching is turned on, UNSelect the On resume, display Welcome
screen check box.
Apply | OK

On resume
[[Specifies whether the logon window is displayed when you resume using the
computer after the screen saver has started running. If logging on requires
a password, you will have to type the password when you resume work.]]

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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