PowerPoint presentation and screen savers

[tamtam]

I am not actually where to post this question, so I will start here. Is there a way to have it so that when you are doing a PowerPoint presentation, the screen saver will not come on? I know you can turn it off manually, HOWEVER, we are using Group Policy to force all domain computers to lock with a password protected screen saver after 10 minutes of inactivity. This keeps the users from being able to edit their screen saver settings. We tried to tell them do move the mouse pointer a every few minutes to keep activity, but they keep forgetting.

We have some users that need to be able to do a PowerPoint presentation and not have to worry about the screen saver coming on during it. If they sit on a slide more than 10 minutes, they have to stop their presentation and unlock their computer with their username and password. Is there any kind of setting in PowerPoint to tell it to override the screen saver settings during a PowerPoint Slide Show? That would be ideal. One thing we don't want to do is have users logging on with a local account just to do a PowerPoint presentation. That would be too confusing for them and a headache for our Help Desk. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Thank you.

 

[cmeagan656]

As far as I know there is on setting in PowerPoint to override the screensaver but what I do when I'm working on something that doesn't require constant interaction with the PC and I don't want the screensaver to come on then I just stream a radio station that uses Windows Media Player and turn the volume off. It has to be a radio station that actually opens WMP as opposed to one that just streams through the browser though. It should work by playing a CD in WMP with the volume turned off but I haven't tried that.

Cheers.