screen saver password

[techsev]

I have a cust. who borrowed a co workers laptop while we re-configured his. He was working on a big sales presentation and did not save it. He went to lunch and came back and there is a screen saver password on. The problem is if I reboot him he will loose his presentation. The worker whose laptop he borrowed is on vacation and unreachable for a week. Any one have any ideas to save him?? Thanks for the help. I remember reading about a similiar post but can not find it here.

[LagMonster]

I thought that MS office Created a backup file so If the power went down it would take from the backup.

If he is on a network we could grab the backup file. My brothers girlfreind worked for hours on a Word Doc. (Office 2k) the power went out we all thought She was SOL, but when we opened up Word it restored her work. Hopefully Power Point does the same.

[SB]

What was he using to make the presentation - word, access ect. It is possible that autosave is enabled and also you aren't certain to lose the data if you reboot. But don't reboot it yet, let all these trusty members have a shot at it

[LagMonster]

I was just thinking about something.

I don't know who would do it for ya, but its very possible to make a program to copy all of the temporary files that power point makes and copy them to a new folder that won't be deleted. If you stick this program on a Burned CDR with autorun enabled it would do it automatically. A lot of work, but just might do the trick.

[LagMonster]

LOL....I'll just keep on thinking!

Maybe create a DOS batch file to copy to whole directory to a different one. Much easier, but still must be through an autorun.

[cyberhh]

There is an ISO file that will create a cd that autoboots, disables the screensaver password, moves the mouse and re-enables the password automatically for you. I will look for the site again.

[techsev]

The laptop is an ibm thinkpad and the presentation is in ppt. excel word and access. He has it all over just hasn't put it all together yet he was going to do that after lunch. So much for that. I know he is on the network but I know that it will not auto save we have had that problem before and been burnt.

[cyberhh]

http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00015.asp
About halfway down the list - bypassing a win9x screen saver password.

The trick is that it uses autorun.inf to execute a command changing:
[hkey_current_user\control Panel\Desktop] "ScreenSaveUsePassword"=dword:00000001 to 00000000

The iso does not work on 98 and my or may not work on NT or 2k.

[cyberhh]

If it is an NT/2k box you could remotely edit the machines registry over the network and manually change the screen saver password enable key.

[techsev]

I was hopeing it would work it is a 98 machine and so I tried it anyway. No luck thanks anyway. I'm sure someone has to have run into this before. I was able to do it once before with the same type of program only it worked on 98. I will keep looking if anyone knows please let me know