Invoke Screen Saver with password protection

meadowse · 11-18-2003, 04:15 PM

I am probably gonna get some laughs from some of you...
I need to invoke the screensaver when I leave my desk but I need the password protection available from Windows to also be invoked.

If I double click the Marine 2 icon I get the screen saver but not the password protection.

any ideas

scott

feldon34 · 11-18-2003, 05:10 PM

This is correct, Windows password protection only takes effect if the Aquarium runs as a screen saver.

ScreenControl is one of many programs you'll find if you search for "launch screen saver" or similar searches on Google. It claims to let you control screen savers and/or launch them immediately.

meadowse · 11-19-2003, 10:57 AM

Thank you for pointing me to the application that does what I need. I knew applications like this were around, I just wanted to make sure there was not a way around it that I did not know of.

Thanks for your time, Scott

11-18-2003, 04:15 PM	#1
meadowse Registered Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2	Invoke Screen Saver with password protection I am probably gonna get some laughs from some of you... I need to invoke the screensaver when I leave my desk but I need the password protection available from Windows to also be invoked. If I double click the Marine 2 icon I get the screen saver but not the password protection. any ideas scott

11-18-2003, 05:10 PM	#2
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	This is correct, Windows password protection only takes effect if the Aquarium runs as a screen saver. ScreenControl is one of many programs you'll find if you search for "launch screen saver" or similar searches on Google. It claims to let you control screen savers and/or launch them immediately. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

11-19-2003, 10:57 AM	#3
meadowse Registered Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2	Thank you for pointing me to the application that does what I need. I knew applications like this were around, I just wanted to make sure there was not a way around it that I did not know of. Thanks for your time, Scott