Changing the current screen saver 1

[hblackorby]

Does anyone know how to change the current screen saver? I assume it's stored in the registry somehwere, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I also checked in the win.ini file just for fun. I'm creating an installer program that will copy the .scr file into the windows/system directory and automatically change the current screen saver in windows to the newly copied screen saver. Like I said, I'm assuming I will have to change a registry entry somewhere, but I looked all over my registry and couldn't find any current screen saver related entry. Please don't tell me how to activate and de-activate my current screen saver. I already know about that registry command.

Thanks!
Harold Harold Blackorby
hblackorby@scoreinteractive.com
St. Louis, MO

 

[jitter]

I know for Win2000:

Look for the following:

Key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Underneath this I think you would be interested in the following values:

ScreenSaveActive
ScreenSaveTimeOut
SCRNSAVE.EXE

You will really want the SCRNSAVE.EXE in that its value is the path to the screen saver scr. file.

Hope this is what you were looking for...

 

[MatDavies]

I'm running Windows 2000 and the path of my .scr file is stored in the reg key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\scrnsave.exe

hope this helps!

Matt

 

[hblackorby]

I'm more looking at Windows98. There is no scrnsave.exe value in Win98. That folder contains ScreenSaveActive ScreenSaveTimeOut and ScreenSavePassword. I do have a screen saver chosen in my Control Panel too. Anyone else have any ideas? Harold Blackorby
hblackorby@scoreinteractive.com
St. Louis, MO

 

[jitter]

okay, for windows 98 you need to modify the system.ini configuration file in the windows folder.

in the [boot] section you will find the SCRSAVER.EXE setting.

hope this helps...