Less passwording in Vista!
May 10, 2008 9:17 AM Subscribe
In Vista, how do I turn off the user login/passwords every time the computer goes to screensaver?
My fiancee's mother recently upgraded to Vista, and is totally happy with the computer, except that instead of having to log in to her user profile only when she starts up her computer, she now has to login every time she comes back from the screensaver. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to change it. She wants to keep the profile, and the login on startup, but not every time she leaves the computer for three minutes. Anybody?
My fiancee's mother recently upgraded to Vista, and is totally happy with the computer, except that instead of having to log in to her user profile only when she starts up her computer, she now has to login every time she comes back from the screensaver. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to change it. She wants to keep the profile, and the login on startup, but not every time she leaves the computer for three minutes. Anybody?
Right click desktop -> Personalize -> Screen Saver -> Uncheck On resume, display logon screen. Note this won't effect the logon from sleep setting.
posted by Mitheral at 9:25 AM on May 10, 2008
posted by Mitheral at 9:25 AM on May 10, 2008
Response by poster: Awesome. Will that keep it from happening when the computer goes to sleep automatically? I think she only wants to login when the computer is turned on. (She only has one user set up on the computer, so she never needs to switch).
posted by YoungAmerican at 9:56 AM on May 10, 2008
posted by YoungAmerican at 9:56 AM on May 10, 2008
The setting under screen saver may not prevent the login screen from appearing after sleep.
If the login is still coming up when she doesn't want it, return to the Screen Saver options as described above
Right click desktop -> Personalize -> Screen Saver
then under Power Management click on Change Power Settings
Top option on the left should be Require Password on wakeup, which will bring up a bunch of behavioural options, including at the very bottom - "Don't require a password When the computer wakes from sleep, anyone can access your data because your computer isn't locked"
posted by goshling at 2:05 PM on May 10, 2008
If the login is still coming up when she doesn't want it, return to the Screen Saver options as described above
Right click desktop -> Personalize -> Screen Saver
then under Power Management click on Change Power Settings
Top option on the left should be Require Password on wakeup, which will bring up a bunch of behavioural options, including at the very bottom - "Don't require a password When the computer wakes from sleep, anyone can access your data because your computer isn't locked"
posted by goshling at 2:05 PM on May 10, 2008
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Should fix you up!
posted by punilux at 9:25 AM on May 10, 2008