Deploying a Screensaver

[johnkay21]

Hi Does anyone know the best way of having a "uniformed" screensaver????

A student at my school created one and the Head would like it on all machines?

any ideas?

thanks john

[mattx]

Group Policy ?

[tosca925]

Can this be done in GPO?

[mattx]

Make a .ZAP file first if you can't make a MSI. Deploy it and then control it via a GPO.....?

[mattx]

Thinking about it, a screen saver is normally a SCR file isn't it ?
Instead of using a zap file a quick AutoIT logon script to deploy it would be easier.....

[djm968]

You can configure a screensaver through GPO. Its somewher under display in user configuration.

[Jackd]

Theres an option in the GPO for it

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Display then its screensaver executable name and Screensaver

[DSapseid]

i created a batch file that copies the screen saver from the server to the system32 folder then i made a regedit thing to change the registry entry. This is for when the computer is not logged on. I think it is in a GPO something to do with active desktop i think.

[tosca925]

Ok,

SO advice on how to create a custom screen saver is needed i feel now we know how to do it.

[Irazmus]

You could always use Electric Sheep. I'd deploy it here if I had the time to build a server for it so I don't get 200 machines trying to download sheep from the internet.

[DSapseid]

Ok,

SO advice on how to create a custom screen saver is needed i feel now we know how to do it.

I just created ours by making something in flash exporting it as a SWF then googling for "SWF to SCR coverter" and found one downloaded it an hey presto you got yourself one screensaver!!

[beeswax]

..oh, sorry. misread the subject. thought you said screwdriver

[Optimus]

We have just done this at our school - goup policy to control it when user logged on and then reg hack to control it before a user logs on. We had to distribute it to every PC as before logon, our computers couldn't 'see' network paths.

Then we had the minor problem of some staff complaining because they had 'educational' screensavers which had been disabled....

Reghack below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="c:\\YourScreensaverName.scr"

[Sarahjperry]

You could use a targeted push screensaver app like SnapComms but you'd need to deploy an applet to the computers.