Forcing screen saver for all users without using group policy

[Bob]

Is there a way to change a screen saver for all users of a PC without
using group policy, other than editing every profile on a PC?

Also, where do new profiles get their settings from? I tried changing
the default profile's screensaver in the registry and then logging on
a as a new user, but the new user did not get the default user's
screensaver settings. Any ideas?

 

[Michael K]

Create a reg file with the screen saver you want. Download psexec from
microsoft and distribute the reg files to all PCs

New profiles gets its settings from c:\Documents and Settings\Default User\
To change the settings for the default user. Open regedit and load hive from
c:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT
When you're done editing don't forget to unload the hive.

Example using reg.exe (exits in windows xp) to add a new printer.
reg load "hklm\tempins" "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT"
reg add "HKLM\tempins\Printers\Connections\,,printserver,MyPrinter" /f
reg add "HKLM\tempins\Printers\Connections\,,printserver,MyPrinter" /t
REG_SZ /v "Server" /d "\\printserver"
reg add "HKLM\tempins\Printers\Connections\,,printserver,MyPrinter" /t
REG_SZ /v "Provider" /d "win32spl.dll"
reg unload "hklm\tempins"