Is it safe to remove screen saver activation program from registry?

[Yves Thomas]

Am trying to disable this program (ActivateSS.exe) that my former
employer had automatically installed onto my laptop when I had access
to their intranet.

It's a screen saver activation program that I am not able to turn off
since the screen saver drop-down menu in Display Properties is grayed
out. (I suspect that ActivateSS.exe has something to do with this.)

For some reason the ActivateSS.exe program is not listed in
"Add/Remove Programs" in the Control Panel -- although it's located in
a directory tree under C:\Program Files -- thus I don't know if it's
safe to simply delete that subtree. Is it?

When I did a search for ActivateSS.exe in the registry, it showed up
under the following tree.

HKEY_USERS
S-1-5-21-1454471165-1677128483-1708537768-500
Software
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Explorer Bars
{C4EE31F3-4768-11D2-BE5C-00A0C9A83DA1}
FilesNamedMRU

There are 11 entries there (all of type REG_SZ), one of which has
ActivateSS.exe as Data value.

My question is: can I simply delete this particular entry from the
registry?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ndi]

HKEY_USERS

S-1-5-21-1454471165-1677128483-1708537768-500
Software
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Explorer Bars
{C4EE31F3-4768-11D2-BE5C-00A0C9A83DA1}
FilesNamedMRU

That's you searching for it, the system remembers it for the history.

My question is: can I simply delete this particular entry from the
registry?

ActivateSS.exe is not part of MY Windows 2000. As for screen saver not
configurable, I suggest scanning the policy.