super_si

2k crashed last night pretty bad so its time for a re-install.

Only thing i dont like is the fact, i cant lock the work station?? On XP pro, i press ctrl+alt+delete, and no option was available.

Any ideas?

Si

MarkO

Yeah, another bit of new-fangled GUI that you'll want to turn off in XP.

Go to User accounts in the control panel, and click on 'Change the way users log on or off'. You can then turn off fast-switching which is completely pointless and a waste of the machine's resources. Uncheck 'user the welcome' screen, and you'll have the normal login/locking screen you're used to in previous versions of NT.

super_si

cheers

Spoke to hos he surgested password screen saver aswell. Just when i pop out down want family wrecking my pc

Si

dogmaul

i can lock mine !!
also turn off software rollback just built a machine with 120GB hard disk and xp and was wondering why with just xp on i had lost 15GB !!!! software roal back keeps 12% of your hard disk aside so you can roll back to older versions of stuff

MarkO

Absolutely. That's your job, isn't it?

super_si

cheers

Spoke to hos he surgested password screen saver aswell. Just when i pop out down want family wrecking my pc

Si

super_si

Did last night, lost my profile. bloody thing

MrDeference

Erm. Just hit windows key and L. That locks the account... no changes necessary.