IT Answers » Screen savers http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Sat, 18 May 2013 00:58:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Screensaver Settings Locked http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/screensaver-settings-locked/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/screensaver-settings-locked/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:19:31 +0000 Uncleluckey I am running XP Pro SP2. The settings to change the screen saver time and log on are locked. How do I unlock these settings?

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/screensaver-settings-locked/feed/ 2 WinExit.scr settings for automated logoff http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/winexitscr-settings/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/winexitscr-settings/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:39:06 +0000 Siliconron I need to configure my lab PC’s so that users are logged out after 10 minutes of idle time. I have got the screen saver working, but I am having trouble setting a custom configuration for the screen saver. Everything I have read online says the settings are stored in HKEY_Current_User\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Log off , however the only string value I have in that key is (default) with no value. Where does it store the settings?!?!

I was told that the winexit.scr would use the following keys;

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Logoff]
“ForceLogoff”=”1″
“CountDownTimer”=”300″
“DialogMessage”=”You will be logged off. Press cancel to abort.”

If I manually put these keys in it makes no difference. The screensaver still uses whatever was last configured for it.

I have tried putting in off the wall values in the configuration and then searching the entire registry for them with no luck.

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