Vista Screensaver Off

I have installed Windows Vista in 2 computers. Since last week, the screensaver turns on automatically. I turn off, but after 5 minutes appears the. Since installing the patches on tuesday the windows logo screensaver keeps enabling itself. I go in turn it off click apply then ok go back to screen saver.

We can change screen saver on a computer by changing the settings in display properties. We also have a registry hack to change screen saver settings.

These screen saver settings are stored under the following registry key. HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop Registry values that control screen saver behavior: • ScreenSaveActive • SCRNSAVE.EXE • ScreenSaveTimeOut • ScreenSaverIsSecure To disable or enable screen saver using registry key Set the value of the registry value ScreenSaveActive to 0. From command line you can run the below command for doing this. Reg add 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop' /v ScreenSaveActive /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f To enable screen saver. Reg add 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop' /v ScreenSaveActive /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f To change timeout for activating the screen saver Set the data in the registry value ScreenSaveTimeOut to the timeout limit in seconds. For example if you want to set the time out to 20 minutes you need to change the value of this registry key to 1200.

From command line you can run the below command to change screen saver timeout limit. Buku Teknik Elektronika Pdf. Reg add 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop' /v ScreenSaveTimeOut /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f To enable or disable password protection when the session is resumed You can password protection by setting the data in ScreenSaverIsSecure to 1.

If you set this to 0, you will not be asked to provide password when you interrupt the screen saver to resume the user session. From windows command line you can run the below command to enable password for the screen saver.

Reg add 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop' /v ScreenSaverIsSecure /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f To disable password protection: Reg add 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop' /v ScreenSaverIsSecure /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f To change screen saver using registry key Read the post The above registry keys apply to Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista and Windows 7.