screen saver starting early

[Guest]

It appears that I can't set my screen saver time. I long time ago, SP2, I had
it set for 7 minutes. So now when I move the time to 20 minutes it still
launches early, my guess is at 7.
It's Win2K SP4.
Any reg keys to change to fix this?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Take a look at;

"ScreenSaveTimeOut"="180"
(time in seconds before activation)
found at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

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:
| It appears that I can't set my screen saver time. I long time ago, SP2, I
had
| it set for 7 minutes. So now when I move the time to 20 minutes it still
| launches early, my guess is at 7.
| It's Win2K SP4.
| Any reg keys to change to fix this?

 

[Guest]

I checked it and it shows the correct value? 1020 for 17 minutes.
Is there another area that might override it?

thanx!

 

[Dave Patrick]

No not natively.

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:
|I checked it and it shows the correct value? 1020 for 17 minutes.
| Is there another area that might override it?
|
| thanx!

 

[Dave Patrick]

What happens if you logon as a new user? (create a new account in 'Users and
Passwords').

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[Guest]

I haven't tried yet. I had hoped for an easier fix.
I thoguht about reapplying an SP but don't really want to do this becasue I
have a PC working well (development tools are sensitive (VS,VS.NET,
Macromedia MX, etc.)
I'll give it a try. My guess is that it's something with my current
profile/account.

 

[Dave Patrick]

That's my guess too. Natively though the OS only looks at the Reg_Sz string
ScreenSaveTimeOut

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
|I haven't tried yet. I had hoped for an easier fix.
| I thoguht about reapplying an SP but don't really want to do this becasue
I
| have a PC working well (development tools are sensitive (VS,VS.NET,
| Macromedia MX, etc.)
| I'll give it a try. My guess is that it's something with my current
| profile/account.