Users of Mac OS X Snow Leopard are likely to be aware that the computer can be set to prompt for your password upon waking from the screen saver or sleep mode, as a security measure. However, this can be inconvenient in some situations. For example, if your screen saver starts and you bump the mouse, to close the screen saver, you need to enter your password. Fortunately there is a very neat option to avoid this issue. Go into the System Preferences > Security. On the “General” page there is an option which is likely ticked saying “Require password …after sleep or screen saver begins”. Here you can select the drop-down box and change the setting so that the password is only required to be entered a certain time after sleep or the screen saver begins.