What is a screensaver password?

What is a screensaver password?

A screen saver can provide additional protection from unauthorized access if you leave your device unattended at work or in some other place. If your user account has a password, you might want to enable and configure the screen saver to lock your user session automatically once you leave your PC.

How do I set a display password?

To set up a Screen Saver with Password Protection on Windows:

  1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.
  2. Click on Display to open the Display Properties window.
  3. Select the Screen Saver tab.
  4. In the Screen Saver section, select a screen saver from the selection list.
  5. Check the “Password Protected” option.

How do I protect my workstation with my screensaver?

Lock Your Desktop With a Password-protected Screensaver

  1. Right-click on your desktop.
  2. Select Personalize.
  3. At the bottom of the window that opens, click Screen Saver.
  4. In the Wait box, set the amount of time your computer can be inactive before the screen saver turns on.

How do I turn off screensaver in Windows 8?

Windows 8

  1. To open Control Panel, on your keyboard press the Windows key + R, then on the Run dialog type control and press return.
  2. In the Search control panel box, type in screen saver and then select Turn screen saver on or off.

How do I get rid of my screen saver?

To disable the screen saver:

  1. Click the Start button then Control panel.
  2. Double click the Display icon to open up the Display Properties screen.
  3. Click on the Screen Saver tab.
  4. Change the Screen saver drop down box to (None) and then click on the Apply button.

Can you lock a monitor?

Locking your display screen will protect the information stored on or accessible from your device. When you manually lock your screen, the computer is continuing to run in the background, so you don’t need to close out of documents or apps. You are just putting the display to sleep.

Why do screensavers exist?

A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns, when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence the name).

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