A casual search on Google isn't giving me the answer, and I was wondering if any of my fellow SpiceHeads can shed some light on it. It's jsut to prevent someone from viewing your work, and that it WON'T interrupt what you're doing. Now my thinking is that a screensaver doesn't do that. Screen savers are not necessary on modern, flat-panel LCD displays. In spite of their name, screen savers no longer save anything all they do is waste electricity. Since then, some of my users have gotten it into their head that say their loading up a huge file, and they leave their computer alone, when the screen saver kicks in, it terminates that process, or at least puts it on hold. Screen savers are a left-over solution from a previous technology. I'm using the standard logon.SCR, and this has been pushed out to all our systems. 30 minutes was their recommendation for that maximum amount of time (which is what I set it for). Our SOX auditors insisted we have to have a GPO for an auto screen saver that pop on if say someone walks away from their computer for X amount of time. We recently merged with another company, and because this company has stocks, investors, and is traded on the open market, SOX applies to us.

So here goes), but first some background. Looking to see if anyone knows the answer to this (it's a really dumb question, but as the man says, there are no dumb questions, just dumb answers.

What is the purpose of a screen saver