More help needed with Screen Saver.

[Chris Mitchell]

Following advice received via this NG I have set up an icon on the desktop
to run a ScreenSaver that displays the photos in a directory.



How can I specify the order in which the photos are displayed?



When the slideshow is interrupted I want the user to be prompted for their
password to prevent others from accessing the machine, since it will be
running in a public environment. How can I do this?

 

[Hertz_Donut]

Following advice received via this NG I have set up an icon on the desktop
to run a ScreenSaver that displays the photos in a directory.



How can I specify the order in which the photos are displayed?



When the slideshow is interrupted I want the user to be prompted for their
password to prevent others from accessing the machine, since it will be
running in a public environment. How can I do this?

With modern monitors, screen savers are completely unnecessary.

Honu

 

[Chris Mitchell]

But I want one.

With modern monitors, screen savers are completely unnecessary.

Honu

 

[Guest]

All the pictures available to the "My Pictures Screensaver" screen saver app
must be renamed to alpha-numeric order as you prefer.(see control panel,
display, screensaver tab) Set the windows screen saver to it. (see option for
password) Apply.

Create a shortcut to this vbs file.
--show.vbs--
set shell=createobject("wscript.shell")
' WScript.Sleep 30000
shell.run "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,,1"
WScript.Sleep 1000
shell.sendkeys "{TAB}"
WScript.Sleep 100
shell.sendkeys "{TAB}"
WScript.Sleep 100
shell.sendkeys "{ENTER}"
--end file--

The obvious next question is answered by running this file:
--where.vbs--
Const MY_PICTURES = &H27&
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(MY_PICTURES)
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self
Wscript.Echo objFolderItem.Name & ": " & objFolderItem.Path
--end file--

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

With modern monitors, screen savers are completely unnecessary.

They are unnecessary with regard to "saving" the screen, but a common,
and often valuable use, especially in an office environment, is
keeping a casual passer-by from seeing what you have been doing on the
computer.

 

[Chris Mitchell]

Mark.

I'm sure what you suggest will work, but it's beyond my experience, I've
never knowingly dealt with vbs files and wouldn't know where to start.

However on my desktop I have an icon to lock the workstation, the properties
of which are:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

If I activate this I get the logon screen,which after a while times out to
show my photos.

I have found 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ssmypics.scr' which launches my pictures.

Is there anyway I can add to the properties of my existing icon to make the
pictures run immediately, rather than wait for the timeout?

Is this vbs without my knowing?

 

[Chris Mitchell]

Just noticed that although locking the PC as described in earlier message
displays photos, when I activate PC I am not prompted for my password!