Solve : ScreenSaver properties (or lack thereof)?

1.	Solve : ScreenSaver properties (or lack thereof)?
Answer» I'm using the company laptop at work with Windows XP and I have admin rights. About 4 months back, the company decided to take away from users their ability to change the screensaver and whilst they did that, they also set it for a non-changeable 10 minutes. Now, the IT boys didn't use the usual registry key of "NoDispScrPage" which removes the ScreenSaver tab from the Display Properties window. What they did was to RENDER un-useable (it's ghosted out) all the ScreenSaver property settings that you can normally change from within the Display properties. I don't know how they did this, but it looks like maybe a complete network install of a very cutdown version of the ScreenSaver settings? Changing the Group Policies via gpedit.msc has NO effect either. I would dearly love to be able to change the default 10 minutes before ScreenSaver activates to a more respectable 20 mins. Changing the registry key "ScreenSaveTimeout" to 1200 does nothing either. Are there any experts out there who might know how the ScreenSaver properties may be made available again???if they dont want you to mess with it there must be a reason or something?? Are they 'local' admin rights to or 'network' admin rights? Two different stories. Alan <>< most likely local Quote from: ale52 on April 20, 2007, 09:59:52 AM Are they 'local' admin rights to or 'network' admin rights? Two different stories. Alan <>< Local. Quote from: unlovedwarrior on April 20, 2007, 09:52:02 AM if they dont want you to mess with it there must be a reason or something?? They have a standard screensaver that they want all users to have and that's fine. They also want (and have set) the screensaver timeout to 10 mins, which is NOT fine for me. To give an EXAMPLE, I often run PowerPoint presentations at meetings and there's nothing worse when the screensaver interupts the presentation 10 mins into it, and because the screensaver is password protected, which once again is fine, pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL each time the screensaver cuts in to ENABLE the entering of password is a total pain. Ask the Admin to turn yours off...I think asking the administrators nicely and explaining your POINT will get across better than hacking their settings, that'll just make 'm enforce the rules with more force.. Quote from: RAPTOR on April 21, 2007, 12:15:24 PM I think asking the administrators nicely and explaining your point will get across better than hacking their settings, that'll just make 'm enforce the rules with more force.. This is true and I'll probably resort to this (even tho these IT guys don't know the meaning of being reasonable). It was more a case of satisfying my curiousity as to how this was achieved.

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I'm using the company laptop at work with Windows XP and I have admin rights.
About 4 months back, the company decided to take away from users their ability to
change the screensaver and whilst they did that, they also set it for a non-changeable 10 minutes.

Now, the IT boys didn't use the usual registry key of "NoDispScrPage" which removes the ScreenSaver tab from the Display Properties window.
What they did was to RENDER un-useable (it's ghosted out) all the ScreenSaver property settings that you can normally change from within the Display properties.

I don't know how they did this, but it looks like maybe a complete network install of a very cutdown version of the ScreenSaver settings?

Changing the Group Policies via gpedit.msc has NO effect either.

I would dearly love to be able to change the default 10 minutes before ScreenSaver activates to a more respectable 20 mins.
Changing the registry key "ScreenSaveTimeout" to 1200 does nothing either.

Are there any experts out there who might know how the ScreenSaver properties may be made available again???if they dont want you to mess with it there must be a reason or something?? Are they 'local' admin rights to or 'network' admin rights? Two different stories.

Alan <>< most likely local Quote from: ale52 on April 20, 2007, 09:59:52 AM

Are they 'local' admin rights to or 'network' admin rights? Two different stories.

Alan <><

Local. Quote from: unlovedwarrior on April 20, 2007, 09:52:02 AM

if they dont want you to mess with it there must be a reason or something??

They have a standard screensaver that they want all users to have and that's fine.
They also want (and have set) the screensaver timeout to 10 mins, which is NOT fine for me.
To give an EXAMPLE, I often run PowerPoint presentations at meetings and there's nothing worse when the
screensaver interupts the presentation 10 mins into it, and because the screensaver is password protected,
which once again is fine, pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL each time the screensaver cuts in to ENABLE the entering of password
is a total pain. Ask the Admin to turn yours off...I think asking the administrators nicely and explaining your POINT will get across better than hacking their settings, that'll just make 'm enforce the rules with more force.. Quote from: RAPTOR on April 21, 2007, 12:15:24 PM

I think asking the administrators nicely and explaining your point will get across better than hacking their settings, that'll just make 'm enforce the rules with more force..

This is true and I'll probably resort to this (even tho these IT guys don't know the meaning of being reasonable).
It was more a case of satisfying my curiousity as to how this was achieved.

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