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Windows 2003 - lock screen without screen saver

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http://serverfault.com – Back to Windows NT 4.0 there where a screen saver named "Windows logon". It mimic the usual logon screen (but the dialogue box moved randomly on the screen to avoid some burning process). I think it was also available with Windows 2000. On Windows 2003 it is not longer available. Is there a way to: 1. lock a session after a defined timeout 2. have some sort of logon screen displayed as screensaver 3. extra: if it could skip the ctrl+shift+del step, this will be cool (so just to type the password then enter) As a last resort I could use a screen capture of the logon screen, displayed (HowTos)

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Submitted by grtyyu on 01/29/2012 – Made popular on 01/29/2012

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