Using Program Window as Screen Saver

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I wish to have a specific program window, which is always running on my XP
computer, maximise whenever the computer has been idle for longer than a
pre-set time. Does anyone know how I can do this?
 
MartinWinlow said:
I wish to have a specific program window, which is always running
on my XP computer, maximise whenever the computer has been idle for
longer than a pre-set time. Does anyone know how I can do this?
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It is not something Windows XP is setup to do internally. Perhaps you could
google for a third party application to do it.
 
Some programs will give you this option in there settings, but as stated
prior it is not a function that XP can perform without third party apps.
Check the program options or settings to see if it provides this option, for
example Seti and programs of this nature do provide this option.
 
Replace the registry entry that specifies the screensaver with your program. Screensavers are programs (ie a standard exe file with a funny extension) that accept a command line switch (to preview the picture) and handle a couple of specific messages.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
SCRNSAVE.EXE=
 
Hi, and thanks for your all the attempts at helping. I have tried David's
suggestion and edited the line in the registry item he suggested but nothing
happens. I probably did not do it right - I tried first just replacing the
'C:\WINXP\System32\xxxxxxxxx.scr' line with the path to the program I want to
act as the screen saver and when that didn't do anything I also changed the
'SCRNSAVE.EXE' entry name to the program I wanted. Still nothing. Any more
ideas? MW
 
David, Sorry, but where exactly does that line go? And I assume I just
replace the path string with the program I want to use, ie after the
'SCRNSAVE.EXE=' bit? I am using RegEdit, BTW. MW
 
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