Windows XP screen saver

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DH

I have deployed GPO to disable screen saver on Windows XP machine (confirmed
screen saver property are none), user still reported screen saver is not yet
disabled. How can I disable the screen saver even GPO is failed.

DH
 
Be sure that the following registry values are not defined or set to 0 [zero] :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"=""
"ScreenSaveTimeOut"="0"
"ScreenSaveActive"="0"

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"=""
"ScreenSaveTimeOut"="0"
"ScreenSaveActive"="0"


The GPO for "ScreenSaver" under :

Local Computer Policy\
User Configuration\
Administrative Templates\
Control Panel\
Display\

....should be set to "disabled".

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
I have deployed GPO to disable screen saver on Windows XP machine (confirmed
screen saver property are none), user still reported screen saver is not yet
disabled. How can I disable the screen saver even GPO is failed.

DH
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If it is one user and other users are okay, GPO is probably not
failing. Enforcing a GPO for that user is failing.

If that is the case, you should figure out what is different for that
user and fix it.

Who knows that other GPO enforcements are also not working for that
user? The one you know about for the moment is the screen saver.
 
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