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Can I change the scheduling of the screen saver, to start as soon as I lock my Win XP?
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Can I change the scheduling of the screen saver, to start as soon as I lock my Win XP?
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Instantly Activate a Screensaver
Turn on a screensaver without having to wait by adding a shortcut to your desktop:
If you're part of a domain, you'll see the On resume, password protect check box.
To make sure this works everywhere:
Open your registry and find the key below.
Create a new DWORD valued called "ScreenSaverIsSecure" and set it to a value from the table below.
(Not in registry) - Users can turn password-protection on and off. 0 - Screen savers are not password-protected. 1 - All screen savers are password-protected. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
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MoniterES can do that.
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There isn't a way to do this exactly, but one thing you could do is set the computer to lock when you start the screensaver, and then create a shortcut to the screensaver program (C:\Windows\System32\scrnsave.scr on WinXP) and give it a keyboard mapping like Ctrl-Alt-L.
Edit: I just realized that the screensaver program I gave may not do what I thought it did. When I last tried something like this, I think I ended up using "Nircmd screensaver" instead of scrnsave.scr. Nircmd is a pretty sweet free program, with tons of easy commands that allow you to easily automate a bunch of windows tasks. Anyway, the basic idea is the same, you just create a shortcut to nircmd instead of the screensaver directly.
That's exactly what I did... Ctrl-Alt-S starts the sreensaver... and it's without Nircmd... only I don't remember how I have done that :-s – fretje – 2009-08-06T11:53:33.540