JSI Tip 4725. Your screensaver password works when your account is locked out?

The mechanism for unlocking a password protected screen saver does NOT check to see if the account is locked out.

If you account is locked out, the default unlocking behavior will still accept a valid password and unlock the screen saver.

One downside of this behavior is that if the computer is locked, and the account is locked, asuccessful break-in will NOT register a 528 event in the Security event log.

To workaround these behaviors, Copy / Paste the following entries to a FolderForceUnlockLogon.reg file andrun regedit /s FolderForceUnlockLogon.reg:

REGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon]"ForceUnlockLogon"=dword:00000001