» Group Policy

[SteveLoveMusic]

My firm have decided the its new corporte standard should be for everyone to have a screen saver coming on after 3 mins with the company logo floating accross the screen.

This has been set via group policy fromk within active directory. Now I want to be able to switch this off on my machine as its doing my head in. However obviously changing the screen saver in the normal way is disabled. I thought I would be able to go into the registry... Set the "ActiveScreenSaver" value to 0 and then export this.... save it in the startup folder and then just have to tolorate clicking OK everytime windows loads.... however this has not worked. I also found the time setting for the relevant screen saver and increased it to a value of 9999999999 but again it did not change. I know I am within the correct registry key as when I deleted the picture it uses the screensaver came but with a message "can't find image etc"...

Any idea's would be helpful...

[Mongswissto]

Get a vibrating mousemat, the cursor will always be moving and it will never come on

Other than that no idea

[SteveLoveMusic]

Originally Posted by Massive Attack

Get a vibrating mousemat, the cursor will always be moving and it will never come on

Other than that no idea

Now that I had not considerd!!!

[SteveLoveMusic]

Sorted it!

[Cake]

Did you get a new job?

[SteveLoveMusic]

Originally Posted by GraueWelt

Did you get a new job?

ha ha... no!

[DJCarlos]

is it a security screen saver ? IE with logon prompt to switch it off ?
if so how did you bypass the servers group policy ?

[SteveLoveMusic]

Originally Posted by DJCarlos

is it a security screen saver ? IE with logon prompt to switch it off ?
if so how did you bypass the servers group policy ?

It took a bit of fiddling but... you need to edit the following key in the registry...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\POLICIES\MICROSOFT\WIND OWS\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP

In there you can set ScreenSaverActive to 0 or edit the timeout.

Group policy will reset this every time... so you need to export the saved key to your startup folder and press OK every time you boot to accept the changes.... bettre this than have to put my password in 300 times a day!!

[DJCarlos]

aah i see, yeah i thought it might change back on reboot, bugger eh.
need to find a nice sysadmin and buy him a drink

[SteveLoveMusic]

Originally Posted by DJCarlos

aah i see, yeah i thought it might change back on reboot, bugger eh.
need to find a nice sysadmin and buy him a drink

I am a Sys admin but its company policy and we get audited on whether everyone has the policy applied so I couldn't just opt out...