Tweak Library – Increase the screen saver grace period.

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Increase the screen saver grace period.

This setting lets you adjust the grace period between appearance of a password-protected screen saver and acceptance of password.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

You can specify when the password protection of a screen saver should become effective. Password protection of a screen saver is not effective immediately. By default, a brief period elapses within which the user can use the mouse or the keyboard to stop the screen saver without entering the password.

This entry specifies the delay in seconds between the appearance of a password-protected screen saver and the enforcement of the password requirement. This delay is the screen saver grace period. To adjust the length of screen saver delay, use this registry setting. The time delay can range between 0-217483 seconds.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a String value “ScreenSaverGracePeriod” in the right panel, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify its value within the range given above which can increase grace period. However, if you want to show the original time delay, change the value data to “5”.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

ScreenSaverGracePeriod

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

0 - 2,147,483

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\] key, right-click on the right pane and click on "New > String Value" to create a new String value with the name "ScreenSaverGracePeriod".

Third, right-click on the 'ScreenSaverGracePeriod' String value and click on "Modify".

Finally, enter a value in seconds between 0 and 2147483 (24 days approx.) in the text box and click on 'OK'.