29 June 2011
23 June 2011
Enable screensaver on Windows 7
On my current Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit OS, the screensaver option was disabled: When I right-clicked on the desktop, chose Personalize, the Screen Saver item was greyed out. It also displayed the message at the bottom of the dialog: "One or more of the settings on this page has been disabled by the system administrator."
Some trial-and-error and research revealed the answer.
Update: One more step: You also need to follow the steps described here, as recommended by Ted Myers on the Windows Secrets Lounge. Finally, I have my screensaver back :)
Some trial-and-error and research revealed the answer.
- Back up your registry using these instructions.
- Go to Start and in the search box, type regedit
- This will display the regedit program at the top of the Start dialog box.
- Right-click on the regedit link and choose "Run as Administrator."
- In regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value.
- Name the value NoDispScrSavPage
- Set the value to 0 (zero).
- Close the registry editor.
- Reboot your system.
Update: One more step: You also need to follow the steps described here, as recommended by Ted Myers on the Windows Secrets Lounge. Finally, I have my screensaver back :)
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