 plencnerbPremium
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Re: Is it true I need a Microsoft Account to login to Windows 8? said by vaxvms:There's this neat new feature in Windows called a screensaver. One of the truly amazing things it can do is require the user to provide a password to resume operation. And it doesn't require that merciless act of a reboot. Check it out.
The other neat new feature in Windows is your ability to Lock the desktop by pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL on the keyboard. I don't have a screen saver set, but whenever I go out, I lock my desktop, and then turn off the monitor.
I only reboot when I install MS patches, which is once a month on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Its like clockwork! 
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Fort Frances, ON
kudos:1 | said by plencnerb:The other neat new feature in Windows is your ability to Lock the desktop by pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL on the keyboard.
Even easier is to use the [Windows] + [L] keys.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_key
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Mele20Premium
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Hilo, HI
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said by plencnerb:said by vaxvms:There's this neat new feature in Windows called a screensaver. One of the truly amazing things it can do is require the user to provide a password to resume operation. And it doesn't require that merciless act of a reboot. Check it out.
The other neat new feature in Windows is your ability to Lock the desktop by pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL on the keyboard. I don't have a screen saver set, but whenever I go out, I lock my desktop, and then turn off the monitor. I only reboot when I install MS patches, which is once a month on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Its like clockwork! --Brian Yeah, I have known about that feature for a long time. You play with fire using that feature and for why? If someone breaks into your house they will steal your computer and get into windows eventually...or they will hock it, sell it, whatever. That lock can end up locking you out. As for saving your monitor do what I do...this Dell Ultrasharp now has close to 30,000 hours on it and is still running fine. That's partly because I have it set to go on screen saver at 3 minutes and shut down at 5 minutes. (Plus, I never have used it at 100% brightness....at 70% for many years and only about a year ago put it higher but still not at 100%).
Besides, why would you want to have to stop at the login screen when booting? You want boot to be as fast as possible and the last thing you want is to slow it down with a login screen. I set up my Vista Ultimate virtual machine as you guys are describing. I did it for the heck of it and what is even funnier is that I have NO password on the hidden Admin account on it just a password on MY admin account. It's quite irritating to boot that machine unless I boot into the hidden (which I unhid) Admin account instead of my admin account. I would never do that on a regular basis...it is just too irritating. On my host machine while I have no password on my Admin account, I DO have a complicated password on the default Admin account and I turned off password expiration on it. That is another dangerous thing on Windows that can lock you out and if it locks you out of the default Admin account then you are in deep trouble.
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| said by Mele20:Besides, why would you want to have to stop at the login screen when booting? You want boot to be as fast as possible and the last thing you want is to slow it down with a login screen.
You've announced that you never turn off your computer. Why would you care about the time it takes to boot?
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said by plencnerb:said by vaxvms:There's this neat new feature in Windows called a screensaver. One of the truly amazing things it can do is require the user to provide a password to resume operation. And it doesn't require that merciless act of a reboot. Check it out.
The other neat new feature in Windows is your ability to Lock the desktop by pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL on the keyboard. Next time press Windows Key + L - saves you one finger
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too much work to lock it: Windows Key plus "L" locks it just fine. |
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