Avi

We have deployed a custom screesaver to drill messages in to staff, and have a group policy which forces it to kick in and lock the workstation after 10 minutes.

What i am trying to find is some way of showing a countdown before it locks.

I have found a reg hack that delays the lock after the screensaver activates

http://www.sanx.org/tipShow.asp?index=295

but the only way i can think of displaying a countdown is to make the first 30 seconds of the screensaver into a countdown (30.. 29......10..9..8..7..etc). But this would then be seen every time the screensaver loops (which is about every 3 minutes or so). Other than make a 15 hour long screensaver dows anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks

Avi

john_s

iTrader: (1)

We use a length of 3x2 instead... it's probably more effective

John.

Avi

There's 4500 of them, may take some time

Avi

Someone has suggested reading the "grace period until lock" from the registry and displaying it as a countdown, but unfortunately that's way above me

Anybody out there who may be able to help or point me in the direction of how to do this?

TopBanana

A screensaver is just a normal exe renamed to .scr. Windows passes /s to start the screensaver, /p for the preview and /c for the config screen (there doesn't need to be one though). You need to get someone to knock it up for you, easy project for a developer. Make sure your users have at least read-only access to that registry key

judgejules

Make sure you get the source and compile it yourself too, 4500 users would be a good platform for a practical joke or backdoor...

Jules

ChefDude

if u want some assistance, yell. i'm a screen saver guru

ChefDude

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