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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
