Recent content by Alphonzo

My parents, who are in their 70’s, have computers and run them at 640x480. I wanted to try and bump up the resolution, so pictures look good, but still have it comfortable for them to read. Does anyone know of any links or how to's that outline how to get this done? I know there are various...

I'm running XP Pro and have a question regarding multiple CD/CD-RW/DVD-RW connections. I have a CD-RW, 16X DVD, and a DVD-+RW. The hard drive is running a separate RAID controller built into the motherboard. So I'm left with the standard Primary and Secondary controllers built into the MB to...

Thanks! I initially changed one of the, I think 4, occurrences of "ScreenSaveActive" to 0. That did not work so I changed all of the "ScreenSaveTimeout" to 1200. Apparently the number is in seconds. After rebooting, I'm not sure a reboot is necessary; the timeout is now...

I don't have any screen savers enabled. I'm talking about the Welcome Screen that displays the available users. XP reverts to this screen after a period of inactivity and I really don’t want XP to do this. Alternatively I’d like to extend the period this timeout happens.

After a period of inactivity XP switches back to the login screen. Does anyone know how to how to lengthen this period? I have a password and it’s a pain to type in every 5 or 10 minutes. I really don’t want disable the password so I’d like to lengthen the timeout.