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
Download
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
Download
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
Download
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