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Disabling access to the screensaver

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by techrific 2 views

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Howdy all, Rolling out an image soon, but want to disable access to the screensaver... i.e. so the user cannot even see the screensaver tab in the display properties menu, any takers? THX

Sozo

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by techrific

win2k image (should be obvous since it is in the win2k section, but hey, I hate those guys who just ask a bunch of questions in reply to your question, and never have a real answer!!)

by jackofalltech

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispScrSavPage"=dword:00000000

Ralph

P.S. This will probably also work with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead.

by techrific

Hi Ralph, sorry but I have looked, and there is no key that I can find with that name, under;
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\System"
I only have up to the 2nd last directory, meaning "policies" and after that there is an "explorer" folder, but no "System" folder ,and no "NoDispScrSavPage"=dword:00000000" at all.

Also under HKLM, the directory structure is as you said, but I only have;

disablecad
dontdisplaylastusername
legalnoticecaption
legalnoticetext
shutdownwithoutlogon

any more ideas? thx man
Sozo

by Ryan Boudreaux140

If you are using a W2K OS on the PC you can institute Group Policy Object (GPO)Settings from the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). At the command prompt, type in MMC, then in the console, select open, then browse to C:\WINNT\System 32\GPEDIT.msc. This will open the Group Policy Editor. Once in the editor go to User Configuration, Windows Settings, Control Panel, Display, and then Hide Screen Saver Tab. Double-click on that policy and select Enabled. When you close the console any changes you have made will be saved. We have used this tool for locking down our PC's implemented at remote sites to keep them all consistent and eaiser to maintain in the log run.

Hope this helps!
ET

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