How to change the idle time??

[grinning_devil]

Just a small basic question guys...

The login screen in a networked environment..be it XP or 2k,
i want to change the timings so that the login screen comes up after 10minutes of inactivity...

??

[puja399]

Originally Posted by grinning_devil

Just a small basic question guys...

...although the question seems to be not directed to me, but perhaps u can do it from 'Power Options' (powercfg.cpl), system standby ---> and checking 'Prompt for password...' in 'Advanced Tab'

[grinning_devil]

lol.. i never thought that i wud see a gurl in a place like this... and i always thought of some guy enjoying his time by a gurls ID...!!

well the solution u said wud work,but only after making the PC enter standby mode..i dont want it.
Thanx for the reply though...

Anyways have found a workaround .. through screensaver..have set the time as 10mins and enabled the option "ask for password" .. so kindof working for me!

[eddie]

If you don't want to run screensaver then another way can be by running a scheduled task which runs after 10 minutes of idle time. The task to run would be

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

As far as Puja's comment about the way the question is asked, I must say that a similar situation arose a few months ago on Linux Users Group, Delhi as well. We all were told to read the following document.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/
Even though it is related to Linux and has been written by LinuxChix group but it still is very relevant to the general technology environment.