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[dkreifus]

My company has a GPO in place to set up a screen saver and computer lock out after 10 or 15 minutes of idle time.

Other than moving computers to a different OU, or logging in as a local admin, is there a way to make a computer not idle during a powerppoint presentation. We have several execs who can stay on a slide for a long while during discussions while using their own laptops.

[Taco Bell]

Besides some mouse jiggler app which would also defeat the purpose of having such a group policy in the first place, I don't see you as having any other choices dk.

However, maybe someone who's a PowerPoint guru can suggest something that can be added to a standard company template that would prevent the screensaver from kicking in.

Good luck man and I feel your pain.

[Phonics Monkey]

You could increase the screensaver grace period to a minute or so, so they have time to catch it and move the mouse to reset the SS clock.

[DangerousDave86]

Tricky, it seems odd to me that there isn't a prevent screen saver option in powerpoint like there is with WMP. Although, staying on a slide for 15 mins without a click is a long time.

Someone wrote "Disable screensavers. (click on the desktop, choose ‘PROPERTIES’ click the ‘SCREENSAVER tab choose ‘NONE’) PowerPoint, in theory, disables screensavers, I prefer to not to take a chance!" - but that just can't be true

Edited by DangerousDave86, 27 August 2007 - 04:49 PM.

[dkreifus]

I agree that it is a long time on a slide, but when it comes to finacials and such, it can be an hour long discussion.

Anyway...I have been looking for a feature like that. Oh well

[DangerousDave86]

If users are able to change settings, you could write a small app to disable the screen saver (then after a logout, and login the policy for screen savers would be restored to normal?). Such an app would hopefully just affect the current "presentation" session.

[dkreifus]

since we use lenovo laptops I found it has a presentation director. I've downloaded that, and I'm trying to come up with something with that

[elver]

I've the same problem.Tried also with presentation director but without success.
The Policies has higher priority.

[dkreifus]

Alas..until we all switch to vista, no such luck

[Telecide]

Hi,

We had the same problem but found a cool little utility that simulates a mouse click or movement and it's free.

Below is the link.

http://www.torrez.org/projects/xumouse.shtml

I'll tell you one thing though through experience, don't type anything while this is running.....I set it up on test to simulate a mouse click every 10 seconds and forgot about......very confusing seeing my typing going all over the place.

I know it goes against many security principles but once the users are warned about leaving machines unattended, there is not a great deal more you can do until we roll out Vista.

Hope this helps, it did us.

[dkreifus]

Wouldn't a mouse click move a powerpoint presentation forward?

[JoeBubbles]

dkreifus, on 24 August 2007 - 12:27 PM, said:

My company has a GPO in place to set up a screen saver and computer lock out after 10 or 15 minutes of idle time.

Other than moving computers to a different OU, or logging in as a local admin, is there a way to make a computer not idle during a powerppoint presentation. We have several execs who can stay on a slide for a long while during discussions while using their own laptops.

Download the attachment and rename it to *.vbs. I created a shortcut to this script on my desktop and named it "Slideshow Stay Awake". Simply drag-and-drop your presentation or slide show onto the shortcut, the script will do the rest.


 Slideshow.txt   2.5K   64 downloads

[Phonics Monkey]

Code looks to be legit (does as advertised) thanks Joe.

[kain.adolf]

If you disable the screen returns to the logon screen saver is automatically gray. If it still pops up then it may be because you may have multiple user accounts. Another thing is that you should increase the time duration of the time of the slide.

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