Guest panopticon Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Hello, I'm still trying to figure out how to make winexit.scr be the default screensaver for all users who login to our lab's machines, which are running XP Pro. These are public-access computers, users login to them by authenticating against a domain that I do not control. I also don't control the users...the University we are a part of has control over the domain. So what I want is for winexit.scr to be the only screensaver they've got. I plan to block their ability to change screensavers (or delete the .scr files) via group policy. I've found an explanation online of how to set winexit.scr as the default for all users by modifying the registry on a Windows Server2000 or 2003 environment, just not in XP. I've also found suggestions for doing this via Group Policies enforced from the ADUC using GPMC, but so far, we don't do things that way - our group policies are stored locally on each machine...and I see no way to force the screen saver that way. I've tried noodling around in the registry, setting winexit.scr as the screensaver in HKEY_USERS\Default, but this only effects the pre-windows screensaver, right before the user logs in. Does anyone know if what I am trying to do us possible, and if so, how can I do it? Many thanks!
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