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    jlongo
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    The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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      The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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      You do know how to fix this right? Or are you not an admin of your box.

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        The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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        Dave Kreskowiak
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        You get 15 minutes?!?! I get 5 as deemed by Security. I'm entering my password to unlock about 150 times a day on about 20 machines. What you're bitching about again?

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          The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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          RossMW
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          Depending on how strick the admin are.....there is a mouse juggler program (or write one yourself) that will stop the screen saver / password from coming on :-\

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            You get 15 minutes?!?! I get 5 as deemed by Security. I'm entering my password to unlock about 150 times a day on about 20 machines. What you're bitching about again?

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            Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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            There is nothing like being a domain administrator (and I used my rights to cancel password renewal every 90 days :-))...

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              The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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              GenJerDan
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              Hey, try this one: remote into a server, forget to wiggle your mouse from time-to-time to keep it open, screen times out and you lose your session and everything that you had running stops.

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                The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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                megaadam
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                Change your password to something that is easy to type fast.

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                  You do know how to fix this right? Or are you not an admin of your box.

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                  Ron Anders wrote:

                  You do know how to fix this right? Or are you not an admin of your box.

                  Where the OP says policy, I bet he means Group Policy, so he will be locked out of making changes.

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                    You do know how to fix this right? Or are you not an admin of your box.

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                    jlongo
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                    It is set by policy

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                      The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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                      My answer to idiotic group policy settings was to write a small application that overwrote those settings. I then set up a scheduled task to run it every 15 minutes when I am logged in (GP is updated once every 30-90 minutes). Only rarely do those policies ever show up.

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                        The 15 minute screen lock is driving me crazy. Take a call, finish, put in your password. Try to do a training session, locks partway through, put in password. Co-worker enters office, leaves, enter password. Seems I spend all day entering my password. Policy won't let me disable it! I bet the guy who came up with this, is the same guy who came up with the stupid password rules back in the 80's. Arghhh!!

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                        Group policy disables the UI on my machine, but I am local admin sooo....HKCU -> Control Panel -> Desktop -> ScreenSaveTimeOut


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