Screen Saver - Toggle On or Off - Add to Desktop Context Menu

How to Add "Enable/Disable Screen Saver" to Desktop Context Menu​

   Information

This will show you how to add Enable/Disable Screen Saver to the Desktop context menu for users to be able to quickly toggle their screen saver on or off when say watching a movie or playing a game in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.

While you must be logged in as an administrator to be able to add or remove this from the context menu, all users on the computer will be able to use the context menu item.

   Note

If you use the option (step 2) below that will play a sound, then it will speak "The Screen Saver has been disabled" to indicate the screen saver has been disabled (turned off), and speak "The Screen Saver has been enabled" to indicate the screen saver has been enabled (turned on).

When you toggle the screen saver to be enabled using this context menu item, Windows will still use the same screen saver that you had set to run before you toggled it disabled.

EXAMPLE: Enable/Disable Screen Saver added to Desktop Context Menu

OPTION ONE

To Add "Enable/Disable Screen Saver" to Desktop Context Menu

1. Do either step 2 or 3 below for the context menu item that you would like to add.

2. To Toggle Enable/Disable Screen Saver with Sound Played A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and save it to your desktop, and go to step 4 below.
NOTE: When you click on the Enable/Disable Screen Saver context menu item using this option, you will hear the .wav sound file play only if Window Media Player is set as the default program for .wav files. If you do not have Window Media Player turned on in Windows Features, then you will get a error instead of the sound playing. Add_Enable-Disable_Screen-Saver_to_Context_Menu_with_SOUND.zip


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3. To Toggle Enable/Disable Screen Saver without Sound A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and save it to your desktop, and go to step 4 below.
NOTE: This option is if you do not want to have the .wav sound play when you use the Enable/Disable Screen Saver context menu item, or if you get an error from using step 1 since you have Windows Media Player turned off in Windows Features. Add_Enable-Disable_Screen-Saver_to_Context_Menu.zip


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4. Double click/tap on the downloaded ZIP file, and extract (drag and drop) both the .reg and .vbs files below to your desktop.

5. Unblock the extracted .vbs file.

6. Right click on the extracted and unblocked vbs, and click on Copy.

7. In Windows Explorer, navigate to and open the C:\Windows folder. Right click or press and hold on an empty area in the C:\Window folder, click/tap on Paste, then click/tap on Continue and Yes (UAC) if prompted. Close the Windows Explorer window.

8. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

9. If prompted, click/tap on Run,Yes (UAC-Windows 7/8) or Continue (UAC-Vista), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

10. Enable/Disable Screen Saver has now been added to the context menu.

11. You can delete the download files left on your desktop now if you would like to.

OPTION TWO

To Remove "Enable/Disable Screen Saver" from Desktop Context Menu

NOTE: This is the default setting. 1. Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and save it to your desktop. Remove_Enable-Disable_Screen-Saver_from_Context_Menu.reg


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2. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

3. If prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC-Windows 7/8) or Continue (UAC-Vista), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

4. Enable/Disable Screen Saver has now been removed from the context menu.

5. In Windows Explorer, navigate to and open the C:\Windows folder, right click or press and hold on the file below, click/tap on Delete, and Yes (if prompted). Toggle_Enable-Disable_Screen-Saver.vbs

OR

Toggle_Enable-Disable_Screen-Saver_with_SOUND.vbs
6. You can now delete the download reg file if you would like to.



That's it,
Shawn

Related Tutorials

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• How to Change the Screen Saver in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Turn Screen Saver On or Off in Windows 7
• How to Enable or Disable Screen Savers in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8

 

[Brink]

If i click on it, i get this message.

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The administrator may have required you to register before you can view this page.

But i am login already ???

Are you using any cookie or ad block extension? If so, it could be causing an issue.

Are you able to download from the link below instead?

https://www.sevenforums.com/attachm...e_screen-saver_to_context_menu_with_sound.zip

 

[bundyal]

Are you using any cookie or ad block extension? If so, it could be causing an issue.

Are you able to download from the link below instead?

https://www.sevenforums.com/attachm...e_screen-saver_to_context_menu_with_sound.zip

Thanks a lot!Yes, it was Adblock that was blocking it.Now I could download the zip file.Thanks for your help.

 

[Brink]

Thanks a lot!Yes, it was Adblock that was blocking it.Now I could download the zip file.Thanks for your help.

Great news.

 

[bundyal]

Great news.

But now i have a new problem.
If i click on enable or disable screensaver i get this message.

Can't find the script fileC:\Windows\Toggle_Enable-Disable_Screen-Saver_with_SOUND.vbs.Should I copy that file to the Windows folder?

I see the file now in the windows folder.
Only the reg file does not work, if i click on it 1 or 2 times, it does not enable or disable a screensaver.

 

[Brink]

But now i have a new problem.
If i click on enable or disable screensaver i get this message.

Can't find the script fileC:\Windows\Toggle_Enable-Disable_Screen-Saver_with_SOUND.vbs.Should I copy that file to the Windows folder?

I see the file now in the windows folder.
Only the reg file does not work, if i click on it 1 or 2 times, it does not enable or disable a screensaver.

Just to note, the context menu only toggles the screensaver setting off and on like below. It doesn't play the screensaver.

Screen Saver - Turn On or Off

The screensaver (when turned on), will automatically play at your set "wait" timeout.

 

[bundyal]

Just to note, the context menu only toggles the screensaver setting off and on like below. It doesn't play the screensaver.

Screen Saver - Turn On or Off

The screensaver (when turned on), will automatically play at your set "wait" timeout.

Okay thank you

 

[Brink]

Okay thank you

You're most welcome.