Well first of all, enforcing password-protecting screensavers on teachers will hardly make your network secure. Rethink your policy. Instead, make sure your forest is segmented so that all of your PCI-sensitive and financial (or other sensitive) data is in a place where nobody using a teacher's computer can get at it.
Even so, if you're bent on annoying your users forever in order to please your auditors, you might try this. Locate the registry key that governs the screensaver timeout. Write a vbScript that sets it to something large, then run that vbScript as a scheduled task that runs under the local system account, and give the teachers the rights to run it. Might work. Did anyone else suggest using a machine-local account? --BM On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:13 AM, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have a trick for preventing the screen saver from kicking in > during a PowerPoint presentation? It seems like this should be possible in > theory, since other apps (Media Player comes to mind) can block the screen > saver... > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
