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Need some help please

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:06 am
by StratTone
My company has put a block on our use of the Screen Saver option. Even when I put it to none it will still lock my profile after 15 minutes. Is there a way around this? I am sure there is a program that tricks the screen saver or a easy way to turn it off. Thanks for your help.

Re: Need some help please

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:12 am
by Roja
StratTone wrote:My company has put a block on our use of the Screen Saver option. Even when I put it to none it will still lock my profile after 15 minutes. Is there a way around this? I am sure there is a program that tricks the screen saver or a easy way to turn it off. Thanks for your help.
Wiggle your mouse within 15 minutes, and it won't.

Otherwise, please don't ask for help subverting your companies security. Thats really not what we do here. :)

Re: Need some help please

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:14 am
by John Cartwright
Roja wrote:
StratTone wrote:My company has put a block on our use of the Screen Saver option. Even when I put it to none it will still lock my profile after 15 minutes. Is there a way around this? I am sure there is a program that tricks the screen saver or a easy way to turn it off. Thanks for your help.
Wiggle your mouse within 15 minutes, and it won't.

Otherwise, please don't ask for help subverting your companies security. Thats really not what we do here. :)
I think you should re-read the question. Even though he has turned OFF his screensaver, he is being locked out of his station after 15 minutes of inactivity. Although I could be mistaken, and this is what the company wants :oops:

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:52 am
by StratTone
I totally understand what you are saying however I work for the government and rules made here are sometimes rediculous. I understand security measures are important but when you make huge blanket rules like these it is sometimes unfeasable to work around. I absoulutly have to have my computer up to repair items that need work and when 8 people share the same computer it just doesn't work. The auto lock feature is fine if you are talking about each persone having there own computer but that isn't the case with me so I would appreciate your help if you can. Don't think I'm some punk kid trying to break rules I am an adult that needs this taken off so I can do my job to support troops over seas so I don't appreciate your sarcasm.

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:59 am
by feyd
There's nothing we can do, especially in this case. Talk to your superiors. I would imagine the IT department set up the machine right so only they can alter that setting, which likely, will not happen.

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:20 am
by JayBird
StratTone wrote:Don't think I'm some punk kid trying to break rules I am an adult that needs this taken off so I can do my job to support troops over seas so I don't appreciate your sarcasm.
Wouldn't the correct approach to this problem be to appraoch your superiors and alert them to the problems this causes you for work, rather than circumventing it and possibly leading to disciplinary action for breaking rules!?

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:49 am
by Grim...
15 minutes? That's ages, surely?

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:40 pm
by Chris Corbyn
If you work for Government I fully understand why they've done it. Also, if you're sharing computers I'd be amzed if they have you all using the same username/password so you should probably be logging back off and on again anyway. I'm assuming these are windows machines.

You should speak to your superiors and/or your IT helpdesk/RMC agents rather than us :?

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:45 pm
by Roja
StratTone wrote:I totally understand what you are saying however I work for the government and rules made here are sometimes rediculous.
Here's a note. Many of the rules (that you feel are ridiculous) are in fact mandated by law. Worldwide there are hundreds of privacy requirements for the storage of personal data. Those requirements in many cases specifically require securing workstations to not be easily accessible when people leave their desks.

That is in almost every situation implemented as a screensaver with password lock.

Think about the situation where a government employee has a laptop at the airport. He's travelling by himself, and WOAH! He has to use the restroom RIGHT NOW. He runs to do so, and his laptop is left behind.

Don't you think its reasonable to lock the screen after 15 minutes of inactivity in that situation?

Now consider a gov't office, where a worker steps away from their desk (coffee break, cig, etc). Contractors from EvilCo happen to be onsite, and one decides to use his machine. Still think its unreasonable?
StratTone wrote:I understand security measures are important but when you make huge blanket rules like these it is sometimes unfeasable to work around.
Sometimes it is unrealistic to expect an IT department (let alone a legal department) to draft rules that are individually crafted for each person. When the company (or in your case, branch of the gov't) is in the 100,000+ user range, thats just not going to happen.
StratTone wrote:I absoulutly have to have my computer up to repair items that need work and when 8 people share the same computer it just doesn't work. The auto lock feature is fine if you are talking about each persone having there own computer but that isn't the case with me so I would appreciate your help if you can. Don't think I'm some punk kid trying to break rules I am an adult that needs this taken off so I can do my job to support troops over seas so I don't appreciate your sarcasm.
There was no sarcasm. I work in a department in a company that writes those exact rules, and that declines requests - like yours - to disable those requirements.

In the vast majority of cases, users honestly think they are impossibly impacted when it first becomes a requirement, and yet, years later do fine with just moving the mouse once every few minutes.

If you honestly feel you are unfairly impacted, call your IT helpdesk. Ask your manager. Follow the chain for your company.

Don't ask others how to help you break the law - because that may be exactly what you are doing.

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:12 am
by StratTone
Nevermind you guys are the pencil pushing fools that cause numbers to drop and people to die because of your stupid rules that may work in one situation but criple another......................

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:09 am
by Chris Corbyn
I don't take kindly to your insults to our members. Go away now please... we don't run your workplace. Thread locked!