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Screensaver selection
Name: crimsonisland Date: April 4, 2004 at 21:51:47 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: p4 2.4/ 1.0 GB
Comment:
Under my screen Saver tab under display, my selection box and time out box are greyed out. This is very aggrevating since I want to change my selection. Please offer some suggestions or point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance
Name: Webbo Date: April 5, 2004 at 00:17:23 Pacific
Reply:
I've never seen that behaviour before. Try looking at the settings in regedit. Goto Start, Run, and type "regedit" and click OK.
Now open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and look for two values, "SCRNSAVE.EXE" and "ScreenSaveTimeOut."
Try and set a screensaver via this, search in System32 if you don't know the names, set the timeout in seconds and then open Display Properties. If it is still greyed out, I can't help but try just waiting and seeing if the screensaver you chose comes on. If it does you've got a longwinded workaround!
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Response Number 2
Name: crimsonisland Date: April 5, 2004 at 21:11:07 Pacific
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I tried changing values in registry, but to no avail. The selection stays and I can not change either in regedit or in display properties. Please help.
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