Screensaver policy

[Ken B]

Here's a good one...I have a policy already set for 3/4 of my users, that
sets the screensaver for them, with a 15 minute timeout. Works beautifully
for those it's configured for. There's another account (shop) that's not in
an OU with that policy applied. Every place shop use logs on, the
screensaver doesn't apply. (So far so good). Except for one workstation,
where shop logs on, after 15 minutes, the screensaver engages, and locks the
computer. I've tried gpupdate /force (it's an XP machine), but the
screensaver insists on applying. The settings in the Display applet are all
grayed out, so I can't manually change them. I've tried making the shop
account a local admin on this PC, but that had no effect.

Any ideas on how I can get the screensaver to stop applying? I've even
tried deleting the .SCR file, but that had no success.

TIA,

Ken

 

[Denis Wong @ Hong Kong]

Hi Ken,

You can try RSoP.msc
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-XP-Group-Policy-Windows-2000-Domain-Part2.html

br,
Denis

 

[Ken B]

Hi Denis-

I checked in RSoP... there was no mention of the screensaver settings
showing up (telling me not configured). I would have to imagine that it's a
registry setting that tells the display applet whether to enable or gray out
the screensaver properties page. Would you happen to know that key off
hand?

TIA,

Ken

 

[Denis Wong @ Hong Kong]

Hi Ken,

I am not sure, but worth a check on this one. Note that this one is a per
user setting (HKCU).


ScreenSaveActive
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/93257.asp

br,
Denis