Multiple users: how to set the default screen saver?

[Guest]

I have a Sony Vaio running Windows XP Media Center edition. There are five
users. Despite changing every user's screen saver to display my pictures as
a slideshow (including the Administrator id), the only screensaver that is
displayed is the stupid Sony Vaio default screen saver.

How do I get my system to use my pictures as the default screen saver? If
it matters, each user always logs off after they use the system.

 

[Black Baptist]

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microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I have a Sony Vaio running Windows XP Media Center edition. There are
five users. Despite changing every user's screen saver to display my
pictures as a slideshow (including the Administrator id), the only
screensaver that is displayed is the stupid Sony Vaio default screen
saver.

How do I get my system to use my pictures as the default screen saver?
If it matters, each user always logs off after they use the system.

run regedit and search for the Sony Vaio screen saver name and change it to
the one you want.

 

[NewScience]

Each user has there own ScreenSaver entry in the registry. When they login,
the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

In the right panel, there is a Vlue of SCRNSAVE.EXE and the pathname of the
screensaver. YOu would have to change this.

To change the DEFAULT screensaver (the screensaver that comes on when
sitting at the Welcome Screen and no-one logs on for the time period),
change:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop, SCRNSAVE.EXE data.

You can change each user's when logged in as an administrator by loading
each User's ntuser.dat file (HIVE) under HKEY_USERS\[SOME NAME YOU PICK FOR
THE SESSION].

Then all you have to do is modify that user's key:

HKEY_USERS\[SOME NAME YOU PICK FOR THE SESSION]\Control Panel\Desktop,
SCRNSAVE.EXE data.

What I do is this to save time:

File | Load Hive....
C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\ntuser.dat
MyUser (the name I chose)
Go to HKEY_USERS\MyUser\Control Panel\Desktop
Modify SCRNSAVE.EXE key
Right Click on HKEY_USERS\MyUser\Control Panel\Desktop
Select Export
Save key to .reg file
Right Click on HKEY_USERS\MyUser
Select Unload hive.
Leave Regedit open.

Open .reg file for Edit (right click on filename and select Edit -- do not
double click)
Delete everything under HKEY_USERS\MyUser\Control Panel\Desktop EXCEPT the
entry for SCRNSAVE.EXE.
Save file
Close

Back in regedit
File | Load Hive...
C:\Documents and Settings\[ANOTHER USERNAME]\ntuser.dat
Use MyUser as hive name
File | Import
select .reg file you modified
Check the SCRNSAVE.EXE entry ... it should reflect you change
right click on HKEY_USERS\MyUser
Unload Hive

Do the next user(s).

Good Luck