What is the purpose of a screen saver password#
What is the purpose of a screen saver windows#

Yeah, that too.as 'look what my computer can do that yours can't' envy-inducing joy. God the number of times I have seen that damned XP logo bouncing around the screen.Д¬urrently the aforementioned counterparts particularly like the bouncing cow!!

What is the purpose of a screen saver windows#

They impress my poor Windows using counterparts. You can use another corner to have it auto-hibernate. You can set it up so if you park your mouse in a certain screen corner, your computer will auto-screensaver / lock, so you don't have to worry about waiting 5 min for it to do so. It lets you use screen edges and corners to toggle actions. If you're really interested in personal security, though, just get 'brightside' from the repo's. IE: you really don't need the screensaver, unless, like my roommate, you absolutely love flaunting your collection of anime porn art collection or what-not. If you don't care about a screensaver, then just have your monitor power down after 5 min (it powers up in like a second, so no big deal), and have comp hibernate/sleep after 10. And, if you take off and leave it, it'll power down. So, you can leave it for a bit (going to bathroom and such), and return to it without someone else prying into the porn. If you absolutely want a screensaver, but are still power/resource concious, then have it go off after 5 min of inactivity, then have the computer hibernate/sleep after 10. If you're going to leave your computer for a long time, just have it hibernate/sleep. If you have that disabled, then a screensaver is just a waste of resources.

What is the purpose of a screen saver password#

You leave your computer, and it locks down after 5 min, forcing a password to re-enter.

Today, screensavers are mostly used for fancy personal protection. Basketball players getting paid millions of dollars, and school teachers getting paid squat while the educational system has to skimp by with meager funds for computers and extracurricular activities.

About mid to late 80's, it was kinda hard to come by those monitors again, unless, like I said, you were in the school library, which always had the cheapest hand-me-down junk (ah, yes, at least we folks in the U.S. But, when it was found how those monitors were being used, the industry quickly developed better monitors to prevent that. So, screensavers helped prevent that by either powering down the monitor due to inactivity, or providing a moving image to prevent burn-in. You could see vague images of screens that were left on too long (EG: somebody did a search for a book, you can barely make out the details, but you see them none-the-less). You used to see these types of monitors at public libraries, with their green or orange CRT console appearance. In the 'old days' (80's), they used to have monitors that would get images 'burnt' into them if left with the same image too long.