Moving XP "Computer Locked" notification box location

[whatever]

Hi,

Can anyone help with this?

On my (work) pc, when I lock the screen I get a notification box titled "Computer Locked" with the text "This Computer is in use and has been locked etc etc" and gives instructions on how to unlock it and so on.

However, this is displayed in the middle of the screen, and obscures my backdrop, which would otherwise be visible (at least until the screensaver cuts in).

I'd lke to change this default location to be somewhere else (say, the 0,0 corner, for example).

Are there any settings (registry or otherwise) that can achieve this?

[ThePassenger]

Don't belive so. It's always been slap bang in the middle of the screen since NT4 days. Kind of logical if you think about it, sitting right 'there' nobody is going to miss it when they sit down to use the machine.

[zumbruk]

I always move it off the screen, so passers by get a better look at my TVR.

[whatever]

zumbruk said:

I always move it off the screen, so passers by get a better look at my TVR.

That's the sort of thing I have to do, but ever seeking reduced-effort practices, wanted it to just appear in the "right" place to begin with

The backdrop's not the TVR, though. It's actually (at the moment) a SEM image of an ant's head, with ant-mites crawling on it. Astonishing level of detail and, in my naivity, it had never before occurred to be that ants would have parasites. I wonder if the mites have mites...?

[sclayto2]

Sorry but that dialog is controlled by a core element of the OS. You would need to go to Microsoft and ask them to modify winlogon.exe.

As mentioned, you can move it to the side, but ISTR that a 3 finger salute will move it back to the centre of the screen.

[zumbruk]

whatever said:

zumbruk said:

I always move it off the screen, so passers by get a better look at my TVR.

That's the sort of thing I have to do, but ever seeking reduced-effort practices, wanted it to just appear in the "right" place to begin with

The backdrop's not the TVR, though. It's actually (at the moment) a SEM image of an ant's head, with ant-mites crawling on it. Astonishing level of detail and, in my naivity, it had never before occurred to be that ants would have parasites. I wonder if the mites have mites...?

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Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum."

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