Screen Saver

[ron]

We have a computer with cctv displayed, it's connected to the domain and I have disabled the screen saver as an administrator but when the user logs on the screen saver comes up and we need it to be off. Any ideas?

[localzuk]

Can't the user which logs in simply turn off the screensaver via the display control panel?

[36Degrees]

I assume the screensaver isn't controlled by a domain GPO? If not, have you tried giving the user temporary admin rights to the PC, logging on as them to disable the screensaver and then removing admin rights?

[ron]

They don't have permisson to access the display control panel, yes I could give the user admin rights to disable the screen server. Why if I have done this as an administrator why doesn't it carry over for other users?

[localzuk]

They don't have permisson to access the display control panel, yes I could give the user admin rights to disable the screen server. Why if I have done this as an administrator why doesn't it carry over for other users?

Screen saver settings are done per user IIRC. You may be able to set it via a GPO though.

[marc2510]

We have a computer with cctv displayed, it's connected to the domain and I have disabled the screen saver as an administrator but when the user logs on the screen saver comes up and we need it to be off. Any ideas?

heres a quick way that i find never fails.

bit messy but does the job -

create a batch file.

regedit.exe /s C:\screensaver.reg

put the bat file in the startup folder for that user

create this reg edit

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"ScreenSaveActive"="0"

then save the reg file in the route of C:\

the bat will call up the regedit and will apply it silently

[ron]

heres a quick way that i find never fails.

bit messy but does the job -

create a batch file.

regedit.exe /s C:\screensaver.reg

put the bat file in the startup folder for that user

create this reg edit

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"ScreenSaveActive"="0"

then save the reg file in the route of C:\

the bat will call up the regedit and will apply it silently

I'll give it a go. Cheers!