Registry Item

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Where in the Registry is it stored.... that indicates your screensaver time
and the time for your monitor to turn off (energy feature)?
Thanks
 
Basically you'll what to edit parameters in this area:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
 
Could be a number of reasons Maybe he's writing a program/utility that
needs to access it.
 
Actually I think I have an application that is inadvertently corrupting a
line.
I just didn't know where that line in the Registry was located.
I will review the info later in the weekend.

Thanks for all the inputs.
 
Have you tried opening regedit and doing a search for "screensaver"?

I found a few possibilities.

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop


HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-602162358-1078145449-725345543-500\Control
Panel\Desktop

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop


Remember to back it up before you change anything. Also, your milage
may vary.
 
Hello JCO,

Thank you for posting.

From your post, my understanding on this issue is: You want to know where
in the registry does the screensaver time and turn-off monitor time save?
If I'm off base, please feel free to let me know.

Based on my my research and tests, the screensaver time stores in:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ScreenSaveTimeOut]

And it is stored in seconds.

The turn-off monitor time is more complex, since it is stored in binary
format under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg]

Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need anything else.

Sincerely,
Kenxl Zou
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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I had trouble finding it exactly but after your last post... I think I found
the information. Off course, we don't all have the same Registry keys in
HKUser but I was able to find the location that you mentioned.

On my computer, the key is as shown below:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1757981266-861567501-725345543-1000\Control
Panel\Desktop
 
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