Re: Creasting a shortcut to a screensaver

[Guest vikrant]

Re: Creasting a shortcut to a screensaver

 

yeah microsoft says it as well

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328000

 

 

 

"Wee Willy" wrote:

> Thanks for the come-back. I was afraid it was an old-guy brain-cramp

>

> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote:

>

> > It used to work, but doesn't know. When you manually open the screen saver, the protection functionality is absent.

> >

> > --

> > Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security

> > Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes

> > http://www.dougknox.com

> > --------------------------------

> > Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro

> > http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm

> > --------------------------------

> > Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

> > Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

> >

> > "Wee Willy" <Wee Willy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:242E1952-9B87-4091-8F8C-5F02361F23FE@microsoft.com...

> > >I seem to remember ("in the old days") that I could create a shortcut to a

> > > screen saver on my Task Bar and clicking on it would invoke that particular

> > > screen saver. I don't remember how to do this such that the screensaver

> > > options (like pasword lock) are properly invoked. I can drag an SCR file

> > > from SYSTEM32 to the task bar and that will create the icon and clicking it

> > > will fire up the screensaver, but the options previously set on the Display

> > > Properties / Screensaver tab (like password lock) are not honored. Any one

> > > remember how I make this work? Or am I just dreaming and this never did

> > > work like I think?

> >

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: Creasting a shortcut to a screensaver

 

Re: Creasting a shortcut to a screensaver

 

Wondered why I didn't have the original post, went to Google Groups and

found it was from 2006!

 

Anyway, in case it helps anyone else, I use a tiny free program called

Wizmo from Steve Gibson: http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

 

I have a shortcut to this in the Quick Launch bar, with the "blank"

command line option. This starts whatever screensaver you have set in

Display Properties exactly as if Windows itself had done it, including

any password protection.

 

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Nightowl

 

 

vikrant <vikrant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Sat, 22 Mar 2008:

>yeah microsoft says it as well

>

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328000

>

>

>

>"Wee Willy" wrote:

>

>> Thanks for the come-back. I was afraid it was an old-guy brain-cramp

>>

>> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote:

>>

>> > It used to work, but doesn't know. When you manually open the

>> >screen saver, the protection functionality is absent.

>> >

>> > --

>> > Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart

>> >Display\Security

>> > Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes

>> > http://www.dougknox.com

>> > --------------------------------

>> > Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro

>> > http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm

>> > --------------------------------

>> > Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

>> > Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

>> >

>> > "Wee Willy" <Wee Willy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> >news:242E1952-9B87-4091-8F8C-5F02361F23FE@microsoft.com...

>> > >I seem to remember ("in the old days") that I could create a

>> > >shortcut to a

>> > > screen saver on my Task Bar and clicking on it would invoke that

>> > >particular

>> > > screen saver. I don't remember how to do this such that the screensaver

>> > > options (like pasword lock) are properly invoked. I can drag an

>> > >SCR file

>> > > from SYSTEM32 to the task bar and that will create the icon and

>> > >clicking it

>> > > will fire up the screensaver, but the options previously set on

>> > >Display

>> > > Properties / Screensaver tab (like password lock) are not

>> > >honored. Any one

>> > > remember how I make this work? Or am I just dreaming and this

>> > >never did

>> > > work like I think?

>> >

 

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Nightowl