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These tweaks are a collection obtained over the years from our own needs and discoveries, the Internet, books, magazines or other sources - MCS does not assume full credit for anything below.

Determines whether the screen saver is password protected and prevents users from changing the password-protection setting.

Create a new DWORD valued called "ScreenSaverIsSecure" and set it to a value from the table below.

(Not in registry) - Users can turn password-protection on and off.
0 - Screen savers are not password-protected.
1 - All screen savers are password-protected.

Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop]
Value Name: ScreenSaverIsSecure
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)