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Changing logon screensaver

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by ptroyano

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I recently tried to change the logon screensaver after your article on the same for windows xp. I have windows 2000. Does that make a difference?
Also the file I put in regedit for SCRNSAVE.EXE string value was webshots. Does it need the file extension webshots.scr ?
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by joseph moore

Try this article for help on this:
http://www.petri.co.il/quickly_change_logon_screensaver.htm
(please remove any spaces)

But yes, you would need the whole file name (webshots.scr) as the value. And also please remember that if the file name ofthe screensaver file is longer than 8 characters (say the filename is "the matrix.scr") you would need to use 8.3 naming convention to get this to work in Win2K. So, for the above example, I would name the file "themat~1.scr" when modifying the Registry entry to get this to work.

hope this helps

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