Manually Start Screen Saver

[Guest]

Is there a way to manually start your screen saver? My old Win98 Office
Toolbar had a button to start the Screen Saver right away. I cannot find any
similar feature in XP.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Create a shortcut on the desktop pointing to the *.scr

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| Is there a way to manually start your screen saver? My old Win98 Office
| Toolbar had a button to start the Screen Saver right away. I cannot find
any
| similar feature in XP.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that. The only problem with this method is that the password on
restart feature is not activated. A major part of the reason for wanting the
short cut is to protect my machine while it is on without waiting for the
screen saver time passage to kick in.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Just have to ask the right question. Windows key + L

or

Put this line in the shortcut's 'Target'
%systemroot%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks for that. The only problem with this method is that the password
on
| restart feature is not activated. A major part of the reason for wanting
the
| short cut is to protect my machine while it is on without waiting for the
| screen saver time passage to kick in.