Computer is locked

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Dave McDuell

Is there some setting, other than the screen saver or
manually locking, which will cause XP to go to
the "Computer is locked" screen after a period of time ??
I have a user who swears his is doing this in the middle
of the night but the screen saver is set to none and the
requirement to hit ctrl-alt-del when logging on is not
checked.

Thanks
 
I believe if either hibernation or standby (not certain which one) is
selected then when the computer resume, it will automatically go into
locked mode...
 
Is there some setting, other than the screen saver or
manually locking, which will cause XP to go to
the "Computer is locked" screen after a period of time ??
I have a user who swears his is doing this in the middle
of the night but the screen saver is set to none and the
requirement to hit ctrl-alt-del when logging on is not
checked.

Thanks
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It's possible he has a power managment setting that puts the machine
to sleep after a set amount of inactivity, regardless of wheter a
screen saver is set or not. When it comes out of that mode, it may
require a user-p/w to unlock.
 
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