This is a quick tip that will allow you to disable and enable your screen saver quickly with the click/double click of your mouse. This process will save you time and allow you to control your screen saver if you need to temporarily disable it for whatever reason you might have.
The steps are for both Windows XP and Vista and will only work for screen savers that were set manually by the user. Screen savers set through policies by a company on a user laptop/desktop will not be affected by these steps.
1. Open notepad and copy the information into notepad.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
“ScreenSaveActive”=”0″
2. Save the file as ‘Disable screen saver.reg’.
3. Now change the “0″ in ‘ScreenSaveActive’ to “1″.
4. Save the file as ‘Enable screen saver.reg’.
Whenever you want to disable the screen saver, go to the location where the files you created are and click/double click the ‘Disable screen saver’ file. To enable the screen saver click/double click ‘Enable screen saver’ file.
