At 7:28 PM -0400 10/11/07, Jeff Wright wrote:
Yeah, I saw that, but no native shortcut. Heck, there are no less than 2
ways of doing this on a PC without waiting for the screensaver to kick in.
Just illustrating that Windows does this simple, yet very valuable, thing
out of the box and on a Mac, it's E*N*T*E*R*T*A*I*N*M*E*N*T.
-----Original Message-----
I read this and thought no way...can't be. Looks like.
Shortest way seems to be to set up a icon in the dock to activate the
screen
> saver and have that lock the computer.
Apple > System Preferences > Desktop & Screen
Saver > Hot Corners to set a "hot corner" to
immediately invoke the screen saver
Then Show All > Security click "Require password
to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver".
How can I invoke the screen saver on Windows
without finding the actual module and creating a
shortcut on the desktop?
--
Roger
Lovettsville, VA
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