ScreenSaver in Powerpoint
Garry Smith
Show is running? We have Group Policy set to stop users from being able to
disabled their screensaver lockout.
Cheers
@powerpointworkbench.com Glen Millar
If PowerPoint could over-ride a group policy, it wouldn't be secure in any
form. Apart from that, your choices are that you could design your
presentations to require input from the user before the set time, or allow
some users to have a different Group Policy to enable them to by-pass it.
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Garry Smith
Thanks for your reply, I think I may have not been as clear as I should be.
What we a re looking for is something that will make the computer think that
a key or some sort of mouse movement has been executed to reset the
screensaver to another 10 minute timeout.
Many Thanks
Garry
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and select (None) from the drop down box where you select a screen saver
type.
OR you could select a time limit of...say 600 minutes or so.
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Steve Rindsberg
Garry,
> Thanks for your reply, I think I may have not been as clear as I should be.
> What we a re looking for is something that will make the computer think that
> a key or some sort of mouse movement has been executed to reset the
> screensaver to another 10 minute timeout.
If nothing moves in ten minutes, your presenter may have died, in which case
there are bigger problems than the screensaver kicking in.
That or it's an automated presentation. In that case, you might be best off to
set up a user profile that doesn't have a screensaver set and that includes
only the permissions absolutely required to run a kiosk show.
John Langhans [MSFT]
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Hello,
PowerPoint does not have the specific capability that you are looking for.
If PowerPoint could override secure group policy objects (GPO), they
wouldn't be very secure. One workaround is to make sure that your
presentations are designed in a way that encourage some kind of user input
within the specified time set by the GPO. The solutions, of course, are for
users which need the capability to run slide shows which will be inactive
for long periods of time, to either have their GPO changed or to have their
admin set up special accounts with different a GPO (that doesn't force
slide show so soon) and allow presenters to use these accounts when
delivering slide shows.
I won't include my usual request for customers to send in suggestions to
get this behavior changed in PowerPoint since PowerPoint is doing exactly
what it should be when such a GPO is set. To do anything else (even if it
was possible) would be a major violation Microsoft's committment to its
Trustworthy Computing Initiative.
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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