{"id":59,"date":"2012-04-16T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/myblog\/elvis\/post\/2012\/04\/16\/Disable-screen-saver-enabled-with-group-policy-(Windows-7).aspx"},"modified":"2012-04-16T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:52:00","slug":"disable-screen-saver-enabled-with-group-policy-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Disable screen saver, enabled with group policy (Windows 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: medium;\">Of course, at the beginning, you must exclude the computer from the region where the policy is applied. If the policy is still active at the computer, you cannot change any setting applied with GP.<br \/>\nAfter GP is disabled, you must change few values in the registry:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: medium;\">1. The registry key <em>HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem<\/em><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: medium;\"><em>ScreenSaverActive<\/em> for Enable (1) or Disable (0) screen saver<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: medium;\"><em>ScreenSaverIsSecure<\/em> for Enable (1) or Disable (0) password protected screen saver<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: medium;\"><em>ScreenSaveTimeOut<\/em> for number of seconds that the screen saver will be going on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: medium;\">2. The registry key <em>HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop<\/em> &#8211; I suggest to view and set up the same values also here (keys are very similar), but this is not a group policy setting; it is a normal windows setting.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Remark\u00a01<\/strong>: I found in some cases also an another registry key to be modified: <em>HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePolicesMicrosoftWindowsControl PanelDesktop<\/em>. Please look also at this point.<\/span><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?s=buy-motilium-soft-tabs\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, at the beginning, you must exclude the computer from the region where the policy is applied. If the policy is still active at the computer, you cannot change any setting applied with GP. After GP is disabled, you must change few values in the registry: 1. The registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem ScreenSaverActive for Enable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[24,39,40],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","category-windows-server","tag-small-business-server","tag-windows","tag-windows-server"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}