How to add a logon screen screensaver

[round2it]

Is it possible to have a custom screensaver on the windows 7 login screen

 

Also what software can I use to create one.

 

I think it is just a case of a changing the following registry settings

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]

"ScreenSaveActive"="1"

"ScreensaveTimeOut"="60"

"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="C:\\Windows\\Sytem32\\myscreensaver.scr"

 

or am I going down the wrong way

[Steve21]

Yep that's the settings etc. In regards to the screensaver it depends what you want, we have a custom VB.net one that runs and picks photos from a folder to display. Also things like warns if network cable disconnected etc before logins.

 

A scr is basically just a renamed/packaged exe. There are some restrictions as to what can run before logon due to whats accessible (e.g. Movie playback isn't normally as directx isnt' loaded)

 

Steve

[round2it]

care to share your setup as it sounds exactly what I need

[Steve21]

I'm currently in China still Will be back in work next week or so, and can try to dig it out.

 

Will need to make a few changes to the code if you're interested as I hardcoded our setup into it, but can try to make it work nicely via reg/file config etc

 

Steve

[round2it]

that would be fantastic