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Looking for some software that can...

by rhyskit Mar 20, 2008 3:41AM PDT

(Sorry for the double post, I reported my other thread asking for deletion, I put it in wrong forum by mistake)

Anyone know of anything that might help me?

Im hoping to find a program, that will lock off an xp pc, maybe show a screensaver or something and have a button in the middle, with something like "begin" or "start session". Then set it, so that say.. 10 minutes are clicking the button, the PC will reboot. Free would be great, but if not too expensive, paid software might be ok as well as long as it has a trial and I can test it first.

Anyone know if anything like that exists? or even anything similar? Thanks for any help

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Just use the Windows screensaver

by ChuckT Mar 20, 2008 8:10AM PDT

There is a setting on the Screensaver that requires a user to use the desktop's password to unlock it.
With WinXP set the "Wait" period to be 10 minutes, then turn on the setting "On resume, display Welcome screen"

On that Welcome screen you should also see a selection to reboot the computer.

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