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Old Dec 30, 2005 | 09:17 AM
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computer help - screen saver delay

I'm working temporarily filing in for a guy on vacation. They log me on to his computer every morning, but after ten minutes or so the screen saver comes on and locks the computer. and I have to go get somebody who knows the password to log me back in. I can't set the screen saver to wait longer before locking the computer, I already tried that. Is there something else I can do to pro-long it automatically logging me out? I'm not at the computer all the time, but need it regularly througout the day.
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-matt

EDIT: there used to be a thing called advantage, where somebody paid you to surf the web. then somebody came out with a program called "MY Advantage" that would sit there and visit websites all night long while you slept. Something like that would do the trick.
 
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Old Dec 30, 2005 | 09:22 AM
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Try getting the person that logs you in to temporairly disable the password on the screensaver...at least while you are filling in. That's the only way around it.
 
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 01:23 AM
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Just make a point of walking by the computer and moving the mouse every 9 minutes.

Actually, rather than disable the password, ask them to change it to something you can be told. When you leave, they can change it back to whatever it was before.
 
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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 01:29 AM
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Tell thm to disable the screen saver...


SHEESH.....

It's just that easy

If the guy who left was that paranoid he should have provided his own replacement
 

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Old Dec 31, 2005 | 11:15 AM
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they ended up giving me the password. the guy who's computer it is wasn't paranoid, I was working in "Medical Records" at a back institute and that's a rule around there, patient privacy n' all. I tried disabling the screen saver, but whoever, the IT guys, had disabled my ability to do that too. and I'm not that much of a computer guru.
thanks for the help
happy holidays from Texas yall :-)
 
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