turn off locked desktop in Win2k Pro

J1600B

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Anyone know of a way to turn off the locked desktop in Win2k Pro? I only have user rights if that matters.

After 15 minutes of inactivity the screen locks and I have to ctrl-alt-del and re type in my password to continue working. Its really annoying.

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spyordie007

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for security purposes I would recommend that you leave it that way, the idea being that if you walk away from your workstation it will lock itself and nobody will have computer/network/internet access using your network credentials. I dont have my domain group policy setup to do this but I probably should, although I have (and surly will in the future) locked the accounts of plenty of our users because they leave themselves logged on and dont lock their computers and than someone else uses their network account to surf porn (I still dont understand why, but they surely do).

Whatever the case you probably dont care about security anyways and someone will tell you soon enough, just uncheck the "on resume password protect" box on the screen saver tab under display properties.

Just know that when someone does do something with your account and you end up getting in trouble or fired over the actions they took under your account that I told you so.

EDIT: disclaimer: nothing personal it's just been a long day dealing with problems that other people have created due to the common lack of common sense of our users...
 

J1600B

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Thank you for the info spyordie007. I understand and appreciate your disclaimer but I'm never at my office so theres nobody to use my computer but me.



Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
Leave it like it is, security policies like that are put in place for a reason.

And as for you SoulAssassin, piss off. I didn't ask you what you thought I should do.

 

Mark R

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Go to the display control panel. Select the screen saver tab and disable password protection - you'll need to do this for each user account you use.
 

SoulAssassin

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Originally posted by: J1600B
And as for you SoulAssassin, piss off. I didn't ask you what you thought I should do.

As spyordie said, nothing personal but it's obvious that someone made an effort to enable a security option that you are trying to circumvent. Hopefully they were smart enough to make it a domain policy which you won't be able to change but on the chance that they didn't then go ahead and turn it off. More power to you. Just recognize the potential security risk. Would be a shame if you ran out for lunch in a hurry one day and the UPS guy or whatever happens to stroll by and feel the need to look up a little child pr0n, delete that ppt presentation you've been working on, or a coworker starts looking through your files to see how much you make.

My .02, I will now STFU and let you do whatever you want to.