Questions tagged [screensaver]
Screensavers were developed to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors.
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Prevent Screen Saver Whilst Screen Sharing in Google Meet
When in a meeting with Google Meet the screensaver will activate if Google Meet doesn't run in the foreground or active browser window. But when sharing the screen, one has always another screen/tab ...
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Screensaver for Local Screen when using Remote Desktop
I have a server that is always on. It is almost never accessed directly but always via RDP (Remote Desktop). When I do need to access it if the monitor is turned off I often end up having to restart ...
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Is there a way for screen saver to always lock my computer screen?
So basically my screen saver is an important security feature.
If I am away from my computer I want to make sure people need to logged in first before accessing my computer. I want to make sure that ...
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Using RDP with dual monitors -screensaver issue
When using Remote Desktop on “PC A” with dual monitors, if I step away and return 20 minutes later, “PC A” shows the remote screensaver (from the PC I’m connected to “PC B”) on the left monitor, while ...
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How to enable slideshow lock screen and screensaver at the same time in windows 10
In Windows 10, it seems that you can only have EITHER a slideshow as a lock screen OR a screensaver, but not both. As soon as I enable one, the other is disabled.
For example, after setting the the ...
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Windows 11: Modify screensaver behavior via script
I want to enable/disable the screensaver for a fixed local user via a scheduled task. My task runs
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" /f /v ScreenSaverIsSecure /t REG_SZ /d 0
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Windows 10 screen timeout is set. Something turn on the screen after it has been switched off by timer settings
My screen timeout settings is set to 5 minutes for both options (On battery + When plugged in).
My sleep settings is set to 15 minutes from battery and never when plugged in.
Blank screen saver is set ...
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Dual monitor workstation, weird behavior on display sleep
I have the following workstation setup:
AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card (old, yes, but reliable)
1x ASUS PA246 connected via DVI cable
1x ASUS PA278QV connected via DisplayPort cable
Computer dual-...
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How to control screen blanking in Xfce
I have a small cluster of machines running Xubuntu, all recently updated to 22.04. The update caused oddities, different on each machine, but those disappeared after a restart. But now I'm faced ...
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Windows screen saver and screen power off not working
The situation is the following. In my Windows 10 (22H2), the screensaver is not engaging, and neither does the system power off the screen after the set amount of time.
After lots of searching online, ...
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windows 11, screen saver password comes back requiring reboot to fix
Windows 11 Pro 21 H2 22000.1042
There are many posts how to disable the screen saver password. I have read each. This is however an uncovered problem. The screen saver I use is blank screen. For some ...
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Unable to change the screensaver WAIT time. It reset itself to 1 min every time
Unable to change the screensaver WAIT time. It reset itself to 1 min every time.
My PC info : OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Version 10.0.22000 Build 22000 System Manufacturer Dell Inc. ...
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Disable screen saver when using HDMI in Windows 11
I normally want my screen saver to come on after a few minutes of inactivity, but I need to give presentations where I run slides from my computer to a projector through HDMI. In these latter cases, ...
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Google Photos on Windows 10 Screensaver
I'm trying to set up an automated screensaver for my parents on their Windows 10 machine. Idea being a few minutes of idle time then shows random pictures from Google Photos. Right now Windows has a ...
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Screensaver simply doesn't work in windows 10
The problem maybe similar to
Windows 10 screensaver often stops working/doesn't work
The difference is, since I reinstall windows 10 in this computer, it never works. That one seems to use to work ...
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How to passively prevent Windows from blanking screen on a locked down Win10?
I have a computer with Windows 10, and I want to make the time until screen goes blank longer than 15 minutes.
Things I've tried:
Changing the time under screensaver. Worked when setting it lower ...
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USB Keypad Device Preventing Sleep (Windows 11)
I've read USB Audio Device Preventing Sleep (Windows 10), Gamepad Prevents Screensaver From Starting on Windows 10, and a few others on this site.
I have a TACTICAL ASSAULT COMMANDER F14 FINAL FANTASY®...
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How to allow screensaver while fullscreen app is active
Wondering how do I allow a timed screensaver to activate while a fullscreen app is active. For example, a YouTube video is playing fullscreen which normally would prevent the screensaver from ...
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Is having a slide show screen saver on 24/7 bad?
I had to RMA my monitor because the color went bad on the right side of the screen. Like red became pink on the right side of the monitor. I bought it 8 months ago. Was having a slide show playing 24/...
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Screensaver on windows 8 does not work
Screensaver on windows 8.1 does not work. What shall I do ?enter image description here
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xubuntu 20.04 Unable to disable xfce4-screensaver
I posted a question ( xubuntu in hyper-v freezes keyboard and mouse clicks after some idle time ) and it finally turned out, that the real reason is following:
I installed XUbuntu 20.04 and disabled ...
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How do I check if a Linux desktop system would blank screen after some timeout without waiting for that time?
Suppose there is some Linux-based desktop system with some less popular desktop environment.
I tried to make it not to turn off screen by using xset s off and xset -dpms, yet after 10 minutes screen ...
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how to find out the third party process popup a screen saver?
Some third party software pops up a screensaver in win10.
It's hard to figure out which process is doing this because when I try to use some tools to analyze it, the screensaver disappears. There is ...
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on demand black screen screensaver - black screen without switching off monitor
I'm using Caffeine to keep Windows from auto-locking due to domain-enforced GPO settings.
When taking a long break, I will manually switch off my external monitor, using the physical power button. ...
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Change time between screensaver-start and screen-lock
When the screensaver starts there are a couple of seconds I can tap any key and stop the screensaver without the screen becoming locked, despite having the on resume, display logon screen-checkbox ...
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Windows 10 PC locks after Screensaver wait time, even though it is disabled in settings and gpo
Problem solved by Ramhound
All PCs in my domain lock after the wait time in the screensaver settings.
If I set the wait time to 1 minute the PC locks after 1 minute.
The PC locks after 1 minute. The ...
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Windows switches monitors all of a sudden (Windows 10, measurement system)
we have a measurement system running at a factory. The system setup consists of (roughly):
User monitor
Measurement monitor
The program just displays a sine-pattern on the measurement monitor so we ...
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How to turn my screen black and then turn it back on on command?
I need to find a way to make my pc (windows 10) screen turn black, without turning the computer off (or putting it to sleep) and then turn it back on on command.
This is because I need t make a ...
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This screen saver has no options that you can set
I am trying to change the screensaver options, but I see the settings are disabled.
And when I click on the "Settings..." button I am getting the error "This screen saver has no options ...
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Windows 10 Logging Me Off Every 5 Minutes
I know that there are many similar questions on here and on other sites (trust me... I know...) I have been battling this for a while now and I simply cannot figure out why it is still logging me off ...
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issue with screensaver on windows 8.1
I have Windows 8.1 and my screensaver works but only if WMP (the windows media player) is not running.
I have set the time 4 minutes and created a directory with some .jpg. It's often not working when ...
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Screen saver/screen blanking never invoked after time, forcing screen off only temporary
I have a Windows 10 machine on a baremetal desktop that for reasons unclear refuses to turn off its screens (or activate a screen saver). Even with aggressive timing (i.e. 1 minute), it refuses to ...
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Ex-wife might been checking my computer - MacOs Catalina 10.15.7
So I need to find out at what time "someone" might have typed in my password to unlock the screen saver, is there any way?
I tried the last command in terminal and checked some of the ...
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My screensave somehow got disabled in services.msc. Need to enable it
Screen saver was running fine in Win10 Home. It stopped running after no activity. I have checked all settings, they have no changed. I tried different screensavers, I checked registry entries, they ...
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Screensaver is only activated the first time Windows 7
I have set a screensaver on my windows 7 machine and set it to 1 min. It works only one time then after that if I wait more than 1 min it is not activated, I then restarted the machine then it works ...
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Problems with setting screensaver timeout on Windows 10
So I have set the windows screensaver timeout to a high amount of time(10h). The problem is, that I would like to lower the screensaver timeout. I cannot do that using the control panel, because while ...
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Screensaver is not kicking in after the five minutes that I set for it
I have an XPS-13. Using a mouse with a cable, so it is not a problem of wireless mouse feedback to computer.
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Where are screen saver (.scr) configuration settings stored?
I found a Ken Burns Slideshow app in sourceforge I really like. To change settings, an .xml file is created the first time it is run if the .xml file is not located in the same directory. I changed ...
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Temporarily disable screensaver on Windows 10 in an easy way
Pretty simple issue - I work on something, I need the screen to stay on all the time until I'm done. I do not want the screensaver to intrude upon my work. While working, I do not touch the keyboard ...
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Is it possible Schedule Screen saver at specific times?
I am using windows 10 pro system and i would like to run screensaver at specific time to make a notice of Shut down Computer before leaving. Is it possible? even with a third party software or ...
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Folder Actions and screensaver issue
I have a Folder Action Setup in /Volumes that detects when a USB is insert.
this it its structure
on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving theNewItems
delay 1 -- ALLOW MULTIPLES TO BE ...
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Screensaver To Share GPU With Background Machine Learning?
I'm looking to buy a gamer a GPU on which I can run machine learning while he's not playing his games. This naturally lends itself to something like a "screensaver" that, rather than doing anything ...
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Why does changing these registry keys not enable the screensaver?
I'm trying to set up a powershell script that enables some screensaver group policy settings, so I found the corresponding registry keys and set them:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\...
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Windows 10 Pro Sleeps After Locking
Windows 10 Pro sleeps the machine shortly after the screen locks. I want the screen to lock but the machine to continue running with a screen saver (or sleeping the display only).
I set up a new ...
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Prevent lock screen from locking the computer
I have a Windows 10 Enterprise (1607) system that we use for Kiosk. My goal is to prevent this computer from going to the login screen after it leaves the screensaver. Currently, I believe all of my ...
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Win10 Enterprise system keeps enabling screensaver
I have a windows 10 enterprise system. The screen keeps timing out and displaying the lock screen after 20 minutes. I am both local and domain administrator. I've disabled the screensaver in the ...
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Custom lock screen image - Terminal Server 2012 over RDP
Wanting to set a custom lock screen background image for when session is locked due to idle time. Running a terminal services farm setup so users will be connecting over RDP. Anyone able to advise if ...
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Windows 10 - Enable Screensaver when no user is signed in
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We are looking to display a screensaver on Windows 10 workstations BEFORE any users sign in, but updating screensaver settings in GPEDIT.MSC to force a screensaver does not seem to work
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Prompt for password when exiting presentation
Is it possible to prompt for a password when exiting a full screen presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint?
I need to be able to show a presentation constantly, whilst leaving my computer, but do not ...
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Windows 10 randomly stops asking for a password when resuming from screensaver
I have had Windows 10 (Build 1809) installed on this system (Desktop) for less than 2 weeks now and on at least two different occasions, Windows failed to bring up the login screen when resuming from ...
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