Quick overview:
If you leave your computer unattended for a long time, you will probably have set up a screen saver that switches on after about 10 minutes. In this case, a password protects you quite well from prying eyes. But what if you have misplaced this password and still want to continue using the screen saver?
In the Registry hides your password:
Forgot your password? - What to do now
1. Click in succession on Start/Execute and enter the command regedit in.
2. Now shimmy through the keys HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop and delete the value ScreenSave_Data.
3. After you have restarted Windows, the screen saver is password-free and you are free to enter a new one.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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