Comments on: Dipping Duck http://www.unifieddiff.com/2009/05/12/dipping-duck/ crazy hacks with a side of shouting Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shadeclan http://www.unifieddiff.com/2009/05/12/dipping-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-2403 Shadeclan Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:31:04 +0000 http://www.unifieddiff.com/?p=164#comment-2403 Oops! Make sure you change the name of the screensaver in the registry file to whatever screensaver you prefer - chances are, you don't have Endless Screensaver installed on your PC. Oops! Make sure you change the name of the screensaver in the registry file to whatever screensaver you prefer – chances are, you don’t have Endless Screensaver installed on your PC.

]]> By: Shadeclan http://www.unifieddiff.com/2009/05/12/dipping-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-2402 Shadeclan Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:27:59 +0000 http://www.unifieddiff.com/?p=164#comment-2402 I had the same problem except that, being slightly more paranoid than my Admins, I wanted the screensaver set to come on every 7 instead of every 10 minutes. Our GP is refreshed at every boot, so I wrote a little batch job that uploads a registry file whenever I reboot. Here are the registry settings I use: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "SCRNSAVE.EXE"="C:\\WINDOWS\\ENDLES~1.SCR" "ScreenSaveActive"="1" "ScreenSaveTimeOut"="420" "ScreenSaverIsSecure"="1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop] "ScreenSaveActive"="1" "ScreenSaverIsSecure"="1" "ScreenSaveTimeOut"="420" And the batch code (for those who don't dabble much in MS Batch): @echo off setlocal @echo Changing Directory to regfile location. cd /d "[whatever directory path you have your registry settings file]" @echo Restoring Screen Saver settings to 7 min auto-on. start regedit /s "[Whatever you call your registry file].reg" endlocal exit /b 0 exit Enjoy! I had the same problem except that, being slightly more paranoid than my Admins, I wanted the screensaver set to come on every 7 instead of every 10 minutes. Our GP is refreshed at every boot, so I wrote a little batch job that uploads a registry file whenever I reboot. Here are the registry settings I use:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
“SCRNSAVE.EXE”=”C:\\WINDOWS\\ENDLES~1.SCR”
“ScreenSaveActive”=”1″
“ScreenSaveTimeOut”=”420″
“ScreenSaverIsSecure”=”1″

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop]
“ScreenSaveActive”=”1″
“ScreenSaverIsSecure”=”1″
“ScreenSaveTimeOut”=”420″

And the batch code (for those who don’t dabble much in MS Batch):

@echo off
setlocal

@echo Changing Directory to regfile location.
cd /d “[whatever directory path you have your registry settings file]”

@echo Restoring Screen Saver settings to 7 min auto-on.
start regedit /s “[Whatever you call your registry file].reg”

endlocal
exit /b 0
exit

Enjoy!

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