One-touch screensaver or monitor sleep

[Roof Fiddler]

Is there a button to not just lock the console, but lock and immediately
engage the screensaver, or to lock and immediately put the monitor to sleep,
so that I don't have to wait for the screensaver or monitor power timeouts
after locking the console?

 

[Michael Cecil]

Is there a button to not just lock the console, but lock and immediately
engage the screensaver, or to lock and immediately put the monitor to sleep,
so that I don't have to wait for the screensaver or monitor power timeouts
after locking the console?

Try making a shortcut to one of the .scr files in Windows\System32.

 

[Roof Fiddler]

Try making a shortcut to one of the .scr files in Windows\System32.

That works, but it doesn't also lock the console (i.e. password protect the
screen saver).

 

[Breaker]

That works, but it doesn't also lock the console (i.e. password protect the
screen saver).

It does if you enable the password protect for the screensaver.

 

[Roof Fiddler]

in message

It does if you enable the password protect for the screensaver.

Under Control Panel/Personalization/Screen Saver, I do have "On resume,
display logon screen" checked.
But on my system, the screen saver never comes on automatically, even though
I have the wait set to 1 minute. (See my other thread, "Screensaver and
monitor sleep don't work", in this newsgroup.) So maybe it's ignoring my "On
resume, display logon screen" setting for the same reason it's failing to
automatically turn on the screensaver.

 

[Michael Cecil]

Under Control Panel/Personalization/Screen Saver, I do have "On resume,
display logon screen" checked.
But on my system, the screen saver never comes on automatically, even though
I have the wait set to 1 minute. (See my other thread, "Screensaver and
monitor sleep don't work", in this newsgroup.) So maybe it's ignoring my "On
resume, display logon screen" setting for the same reason it's failing to
automatically turn on the screensaver.

I'd guess you've either installed some other software that interferes with
the screensaver/power modes or there is some kind of video driver
interaction going on. I tried the Democracy Player and when it's running,
my computer never shuts off the screen, but it's only version .9 so far so
bugs are expected.