We can configure screensaver settings through display settings. Screensaver can be configured from windows command line as well.
To set the screensaver to ‘None‘ from command line:
reg delete “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop” /v SCRNSAVE.EXE /f
To set the screensaver to ‘Blank‘ from command line:
reg add “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop” /v SCRNSAVE.EXE /t REG_SZ /d C:\Windows\system32\scrnsave.scr /f
You can get the list of screen saver options you have :
dir c:\windows\system32\*scr /b
On my windows 7 system it shows the following screensavers
C:\Users\administrator>dir c:\windows\system32\*scr /b
Bubbles.scr
Mystify.scr
PhotoScreensaver.scr
Ribbons.scr
scrnsave.scr
ssText3d.scr
C:\Users\administrator>
To set Bubbles as the screensaver you need to run the following command from command line.
reg add “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop” /v SCRNSAVE.EXE /t REG_SZ /d C:\Windows\system32\Bubbles.scr /f
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how do you change the time to wait until active?
To change the timeout limit for activating the screen saver you can run the below command.
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" /v ScreenSaveTimeOut /t REG_SZ /d 600 /f
The above command sets the timeout to 10 minutes(regkey stores the value in seconds: 10*60)
For some reason can’t get the TimeOut to work. I got a 5 minute policy so I set it to 300, but it remains on 10 minutes..