Sorry, that came out completely wrong.  I meant to say "those tools DO 
exist"...

Levi

On Thursday 08 September 2005 7:38 am, Levi Smith wrote:
> I can tell you that those tools don't exist.  Unfortunately, it's been so
> long since I've looked for them I'm not going to be much more help than
> that. Well, wait...  If you have XP, you should be able to simply set the
> screensaver to 2 minutes and select the box for going to the logon screen
> when screensaver activates.
>
> If not, the tools I'm remembering I think were part of the resource kit
> that would lock after a period...  Though if you're running something like
> Win95, there's not going to be anything "secure" you can do.  I remember
> the good old days when if you needed to get on someone's computer that was
> screensaver locked you just had to edit an ini file from a remote computer
> to turn off the screensaver.  (:
>
> Levi
>
> On Thursday 08 September 2005 2:06 am, Todd Walton wrote:
> > I have an interesting challenge.  Where I work there are strict
> > government regulations (called HIPAA) protecting the privacy of our
> > customers.  By company policy, which is designed to conform to those
> > regulations, there must be no customer data on the computer screen if
> > there's no one sitting at the computer.  To comply, windows can be
> > minimized, the screen can be turned off, etc.  I'd like to find a way
> > to make this automatic, or at least partially so.
> >
> > It'd be cool if there were a spring sensor in the chair, and if it's
> > not depressed, all windows are minimized.  But that's a little over
> > the top, perhaps.  A very short blank-to-screensaver time maybe?
> > Anybody have any suggestions?  Is there Windows software that would
> > handle this kind of thing?
> >
> > -todd


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