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Thanks for the welcome and I will read and learn. Currently my IT department has made changes to my display settings. I am running WXP Pro and when i right click on the desktop, go to properties, screen saver tab my password protect is selected with a 3 minute timeout to lock computer 3 mins wont let me go take a leak and come back to work. I want to move the time to 15 min but the options are not highlited anymore. How can I change this? I am sure it is in the registry but am uncertain. MY pc does belong to a network and they patched it out to it sometime last night.

Thanks for any help and if I need to post on the site somewhere it will have to be later as I am using dial up to do this. I am disconnected for now.

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and are on the right track — when a workstation is joined to a corporate domain this kind of setting is almost always enforced by Group Policy. The useful next step is to identify where the setting is coming from and then present that evidence to IT rather than guessing.

Quick diagnostic (no changes required)

  • Run rsop.msc (Start -> Run -> rsop.msc). Navigate to
    User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Display.
    RSOP shows the exact policy(s) and which GPO applied them.
  • If rsop.msc is not available, gpresult /r from a command prompt will list applied policies.

If the setting is local only

  • Open gpedit.msc and edit the same nodes under User Configuration. The “Screen saver timeout” policy accepts seconds (15 minutes = 900). There is also a policy that forces password protection or prevents changing the screen saver; those can be changed locally if not locked by the domain.

If the setting is from a domain GPO

  • Local registry or gpedit changes will be overridden at the next policy refresh. The correct route is to provide the GPO name (shown by RSOP) to the network/AD administrator and ask for the timeout to be adjusted (or for that policy to be set to Not Configured) if a longer interval is acceptable.

Cautions

  • Corporate lockout policies are often deliberate for security; bypassing them can violate policy and will likely be reverted. Use RSOP output to make a focused request to IT (GPO name + the policy setting you want changed).

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and you didn't ask you IP department to change it ,Because

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yeah the IT dept need to do it. A security policy is in effect.

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