Where are the registry setting for the screen saver?

[Guest]

I was asked to change every system @ work to a standard screen saver. I
thought this would be easy but I have came across a snaffu.

We are in a NT 4 domain so I am unable to use AD. I could use a local GPO
but we already are using custom GPO's on several systems and I would run
into issues of managing all of them

I would like to find the proper registry settings so that I can change the
screen saver settings for EVERY user that signs on. I looked thru the
HKey_users and HKey_current_user sections but no good. I found the article
on how to change the SIGNON screensaver but that's not the same.

I searched thru the registry for the value of my current screensaver but it
returned no results (Starfield)

Thanks!

 

[John]

Can it not be done through the users profiles?

 

[Keith Miller]

If set normally, it's found here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Value
Name: SCRNSAVE.EXE
Type: REG_SZ
Data: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ssstars.scr

to prevent users from changing it, set it here:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop]
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="ssstars.scr"