Forced logout question

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A friend has XP Home SP2. She also has 5 kids.
The kids will leave themselves logged in. Is there a way
to force XP to log off a user after say an hour of zero activity?
 
J.Kearney said:
A friend has XP Home SP2. She also has 5 kids.
The kids will leave themselves logged in. Is there a way
to force XP to log off a user after say an hour of zero activity?
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Only with third party products.
 
Thanks folks.

I'll try Task Scheduler & Shutdown /L like Bob I suggests, but it sounds
like she'll be struck with the CPU running at 100% just burning clock
cycles.

Bill Gates are you listening?

Joe
 
J.Kearney sent a subspace message on 3/1/2006 8:04 AM:
Thanks folks.

I'll try Task Scheduler & Shutdown /L like Bob I suggests, but it sounds
like she'll be struck with the CPU running at 100% just burning clock
cycles.

Bill Gates are you listening?

Joe
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Here is another option. Go into Control Panel -> Display Properties.
Choose a screensaver and set it to turn on after 10 minutes of
inactivity (or whatever number of minutes you want). If you check the
box "On resume, display Welcome Screen," then when you move the mouse to
disable the screen saver, you will have to log back in.
 
Sea said:
Here is another option. Go into Control Panel -> Display Properties.
Choose a screensaver and set it to turn on after 10 minutes of
inactivity (or whatever number of minutes you want). If you check
the box "On resume, display Welcome Screen," then when you move the
mouse to disable the screen saver, you will have to log back in.
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That does *not* log someone out.. Only locks their session.
 
In windows XP Pro SP2 the check box has "On resume, password protect" I know
that I have had XP log me out automatically in the past. Was this a change
in SP2? Is there a way to get " On resume, Display Welcolm Screen" back?
 
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