Screen Saver Shortcut

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Can someone tell me how to put an icon on my desktop that will activate my
chosen screen saver? I need to activate it when I leave my desk.

Hopeful Auditor
 
AuditIA said:
Can someone tell me how to put an icon on my desktop that will activate my
chosen screen saver? I need to activate it when I leave my desk.

Hopeful Auditor
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If you are using a standard screen saver, it will be a *.scr file. Find the
file for the screen saver you want, right click and select Send To, Desktop
as Shortcut.

Don
 
AuditIA said:
Can someone tell me how to put an icon on my desktop that will
activate my chosen screen saver? I need to activate it when I leave
my desk.

Hopeful Auditor
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1)Search SCR files in your system.
2) Double click on them to know what file is your screen saver.
3) Create a shortcut on Desktop to the SCR file.

(SCR Files should be located in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32).
Regards,
 
Only a program can start a screensaver. Starting scr file DOES NOT start it as a screensaver but as a normal program.
 
Can someone tell me how to put an icon on my desktop that will activate my
chosen screen saver? I need to activate it when I leave my desk.

Hopeful Auditor
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Why not use the Windows-key+L? (I think that's it - not on Windows at the
moment)
 
AuditIA said:
Can someone tell me how to put an icon on my desktop that will activate my
chosen screen saver? I need to activate it when I leave my desk.

Hopeful Auditor
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Create a shortcut on the desktop and in the target box put this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\*.scr where * stands for the file name of the
screensave you use.
 
Thanks, everyone. I love being connected to the big giant brain in the
ether. Phil, the link you sent worked great because I do have a password on
my screensaver.
The "lockout" would work too, but it's not as pretty. THANKS AGAIN!!
 
AuditIA said:
Thanks, everyone. I love being connected to the big giant brain in the
ether. Phil, the link you sent worked great because I do have a password on
my screensaver.
The "lockout" would work too, but it's not as pretty. THANKS AGAIN!!
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You're welcome! Glad it worked. Now if I could only get those in
charge of policy to allow me to *run* a screen saver....
 
AuditIA said:
Thanks, everyone. I love being connected to the big giant brain in
the ether. Phil, the link you sent worked great because I do have a
password on my screensaver.
The "lockout" would work too, but it's not as pretty. THANKS AGAIN!!
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I have found this free tool to load default screensaver:
http://www.geocities.com/visualfantasy_studio/download/dss.zip
or
http://dl.winsite.com/bin/downl?16000000036297

Extract the EXE to a folder (I suggest c:\windows) and create a shortcut
to it.
Regards,
 
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