User Configuration Administrative Templates Control Panel Display Description Enables desktop screen savers. If you disable this policy, screen savers cannot run. This policy also disables the Screen Saver section of the Screen Saver tab in Display in Control Panel. As a result, users cannot change their screen saver options. If you do not configure this policy, it has no effect on the system. If you enable this policy, a screen saver will run if the following two condtions are true: First, a valid screensaver on the client is specified via the policy setting or through Control Panel on the client computer.
Second, the screensaver timeout is set to a nonzero value via the policy setting or through Control Panel. Related Policies.
Enable or Disable the Log On Screen Saver 1. To Enable the Log On Screen Saver NOTE: This will enable the log on screen saver with a 300 second (5 minute) idle wait time. If you would like to change this wait time to what you would like instead, then see the STEP TWO section below after finishing this STEP ONE section to change it. A) Click on the Download button below to download the file below. Enable_Log_on_Screen_Saver.reg B) Go to step 3. To Disable the Log On Screen Saver A) Click on the Download button below to download the file below.
Disable_Log_on_Screen_Saver.reg 3. Click on Save, and save the.reg file to the desktop. Right click on the downloaded.reg file and click on Merge.
Right click on the new desktop, click Personalize, Screen saver 4. Select Photos and change the Wait time to 1 minute (for quicker test) 5. Click Preview to make sure it works, click Apply, OK 6. Wait 1 minute and allow the Screen saver to run once. Escape out of the Screen saver and return to the logged on desktop. Registry Values SCRNSAVE.EXE. Is the name of a screen saver executable file. Activation Method. This policy setting is stored in the SCRNSAVE.EXE entry. The client computer. Second, the screen saver timeout is set to a nonzero value through the setting. Control Panel. Also, see the 'Prevent changing Screen Saver' setting. Supported on: At least Windows 2000 Service Pack 1. Enable screen saver. Description Gpedit Regedit CMD Back VBScript PowerShell Script. If a user does not have the required permissions, they are not able to cannot de-activate the screensaver. And then select Regedit.exe from the list of results. Nov 15, 2013. Can someone tell me what the registry key is to enable the screensaver in Windows 7? We had a GPO that turned if off, now a machine thats off the network needs to be turned on and I need to find.
Click on Run, Yes, Yes, and OK when prompted. Log off to test the screen saver. When done, you can delete the downloaded.reg file on the desktop if you like. Change the Log On Screen Saver Wait Time NOTE: After you have enabled the log on screen saver in the STEP ONE section above, you can change the 300 second (5 minutes) idle wait time to what you would like it to be instead if you would like to. Open the Start Menu, and type regedit in the search box and press enter. If prompted by, then click on Yes.
In regedit, navigate to: (see screenshot below) HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT Control Panel Desktop 4. In the right pane, right click on ScreenSaveTimeOut and click on Modify. (see screenshot above) 5. Type in how long you want the idle wait time to be for in seconds (60 seconds = 1 minute) before the screen saver will run, then click on OK. (see screenshot below) 6. Close regedit. Log off to test the screen saver.
That's it, Shawn. I found the following instructions elsewhere which differ from yours in a couple of areas. First choose the screensaver you want. Look in C: WINDOWS SYSTEM32 for files with the.SCR extension.
Typically there are the following... - SSTEXT3D - 3D Text - BUBBLES.SCR - Bubbles - MYSTIFY.SCR - Mystify - PHOTOSCREENSAVER.SCR - Photos - RIBBONS.SCR - Ribbons If you do not want to use one of the above, add one you like to System32 and name it LogOn.scr or a name of your choice. Once you have your screensaver, open your registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_USERS.Default Control Panel Desktop Below this key create the following REG_SZ values SCRNSAVE.EXE = C: WINDOWS SYSTEM32 LOGON.SCR (or whatever your file is called).
ScreenSaveActive = 1 ScreenSaveIsSecure = 0 ScreenSaveTimeOut = 60 (or whatever timeout you want in seconds) First, you say to only use the blank one, screensave.scr, where the other says to choose one. If I were to choose the blank one, and change the registry settings as you show, what will appear on the blank screen besides a blank screen since nothing has been added to it?
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