removing screensaver option from list

[Guest]

hey i have a screensaver on my list that i dont want on there, but windows
xp remembers all the screensavers i have downloaded, how can i get rid of it
completely without a trace, and i already removed the file. if anyone can
help me you dont know how happy i would be, im not kidding

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

The screenaver files are kept in the %systemroot%\system32 folder. Any
screensaver you want to delete from the Display drop down menu can be
deleted from that folder.

 

[Guest]

hey Will thanks for the advice , but i dont know how to get to the place to
access the folder %systemroot%system32, if you could help me just a little
bit more that would be great

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

The screensaver files are in the windows\system32 folder which can be
accessed via Windows Explorer. When in that folder search for :

*.scr

The resultant list will show all screensaver files installed. Delete any
that you don't want showing up in the Display drop menu.

 

[Guest]

ok
will i erased it when i went to *scr, but it is still there, and what i have
been doing is going to windows explorer and going to search and i would type
in under file name system32, but nothin comes up? any advice i really want it
gone

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Any .SCR file you don't want in the Display drop down will have to deleted
from the system32 folder last. So you will have to find all other
occurrences first and delete those. If you have deleted all those then the
one in the system32 folder shouldn't reappear.

Try the following from a command prompt to see what .SCR files you have:

cd\
dir *.scr /a/s

 

[Kelly]

That won't work Will, as written and won't prove much. The steps depend on
whether the system is Windows or Winnt would be: cd C:\Winnt\System32\dir
*.scr

That said, most add on screensavers need to be uninstalled from Add or
Remove. Also just using the basic search for: *.scr would do the trick.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Have you had a look in the \WINDOWS\system32\dllcache folder to see if the
screensaver is there? If so delete it, then try deleting the screensaver
from the system32 folder.

 

[Will Denny]

I can't figure out where the .SCR file is being re-loaded from - if it's not
in the dllcache folder.