Gary,
This is the default setting for this in the registry for the user that is currently logged in. You try logging in to each user account one at a time, change this registry setting for the 3D Text screen saver to what you want the text to say, then apply the group policy to specify the 3D Text screen saver.
To Set a Default Screen Saver for All Users
A) In regedit, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
Doesn't adding/changing these registry settings only apply to the currently logged-in user?
How do you change it for "All Users" without having to log in as each individual user?
Hello CSRTech, and welcome to Seven Forums.
Not when it's in the Policies key. Policies are applied to all users. :)
OK, I must be missing something obvious then. I have a Win 7 Pro-32 machine with 1 Administrative user and 2 non-admin users. Under the Admin user's account I followed your instructions and created the registry settings:
I then log in as a non-admin user and I can still access/control the screensaver, it has not been set as specified by the policies, and if I check the Registry keys for the current user the policies are not there:
Rebooting does not change the results.
However, if I specify the settings in the Local Group Policy using GPedit; it does promlugate to the other users.
However I would rather deploy this to the other standalone PCs by doing a registry input rather then copying the Regitry.pol file to the other PCs as it would wipe out any other local group policies existing on those PCs.
So where is my mistake with the registry implementation?
And thanks for the warm welcome!
Hmm, I just tested, and sure enough the registry method is not working anymore.
That's the same registry location that group policy sets as shown using "Process Explorer", so I'm not sure why it's not working anymore when doing it manually in the registry and does in Group Policy when it the exact same setting set by both.
I'll have to do some more testing to see what may have changed.
No, absolutely no other group policies on this testpc.
Admin User SS Control Panel:
Other Users:
I found the following under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot]:
"ScreenSaverActive"="USR:Control Panel\\Desktop"
"ScreenSaverIsSecure"="USR:Control Panel\\Desktop"
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="USR:Control Panel\\Desktop"
but I wouldn't think INI file mapping should affect this? Should it?
Brnk.
did you try putting the .reg file in the startup for all users. so when each person logs in, it
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