Creasting a shortcut to a screensaver

[Guest]

I seem to remember ("in the old days") that I could create a shortcut to a
screen saver on my Task Bar and clicking on it would invoke that particular
screen saver. I don't remember how to do this such that the screensaver
options (like pasword lock) are properly invoked. I can drag an SCR file
from SYSTEM32 to the task bar and that will create the icon and clicking it
will fire up the screensaver, but the options previously set on the Display
Properties / Screensaver tab (like password lock) are not honored. Any one
remember how I make this work? Or am I just dreaming and this never did
work like I think?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

It used to work, but doesn't know. When you manually open the screen saver, the protection functionality is absent.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the come-back. I was afraid it was an old-guy brain-cramp

 

[vikrant]

yeah microsoft says it as well

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328000

 

[Nightowl]

Wondered why I didn't have the original post, went to Google Groups and
found it was from 2006!

Anyway, in case it helps anyone else, I use a tiny free program called
Wizmo from Steve Gibson: http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

I have a shortcut to this in the Quick Launch bar, with the "blank"
command line option. This starts whatever screensaver you have set in
Display Properties exactly as if Windows itself had done it, including
any password protection.