Screen Saver Permissions

Javier wrote:

> We just setup a company wide screen saver for all of our
> employees. We want to make it so that they cannot change
> the screen saver. How would I go about doing that? I know
> it has something to do either with permissions or
> something in the registry. Thanks.

Hi

You should download this spread sheet:

Windows XP Professional Resource Kit/Group Policy Object Settings
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4938

under
User Configuration
Control Panel\Display

you will find the following setting:

Hide Screen Saver tab


Explanation for "Hide Screen Saver tab":

Removes the Screen Saver tab from Display in Control Panel.

This policy prevents users from using Control Panel to add, configure, or
change the screen saver on the computer.


In registry, this is the value name NoDispScrSavPage set to 1 (REG_DWORD) under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System


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