Group Policy Screen Saver

[TECHMAN007]

Do to requirements of our working staff we must have a 5 minute password locking screen saver for all employees at our company. I have it set up to run the ssmarque.scr after the 5 minutes but all users (who are restricted from the screen saver tab in display settings) have the default "Your Text Goes Here." Message. I would like to set this for all users on the network to our designated text as well as the text color, size, and bgcolor. I have drudged through the registry on a users machine and there is a .DEFAULT profile which runs when no one is logged in but this one is in no way related to the users that log in. I have no idea where the domain users get their default hq_user registry settings from. Does anyone out there know? If so I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

[cmdematos]

Hello,

I dont have an answer for you, but you are further ahead than me on the same issue. How do I go about forcing users policy to use screen savers with passwords and 5 minute timeouts?

 

[markdmac]

Techman007

You can set this all via the registry. You can use the below script as a login script and it will set it for you. I would expect these setting to not take affect until after the user has logged off and back on.

You should be able to identify the reg keys now that I have provided them in the script. Manually set the settings on one machine the way you want and check the registry to update these settings to match your corporate needs.

'==========================================================================
'
' NAME: SetMarqueeScrSettings.vbs
'
' AUTHOR: Mark D. MacLachlan , The Spider's Parlor
' URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.thespidersparlor.com[/URL]
' DATE  : 8/11/2004
'
' COMMENT: <comment>
'
'==========================================================================
Dim path

Set WSHShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

'set the key path here.  IF you don't end with a '\' then WSH assumes you are pathing to a value. 
path = "HKCU\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Marquee\"


WSHShell.RegWrite path & "BackgroundColor","0 0 128","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "CharSet","0","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "Font","Tahoma","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "Mode","1","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "Size","24","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "Speed","14","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "Text","elephant","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "TextColor","255 0 255","REG_SZ"
WSHShell.RegWrite path & "Attributes","00000","REG_SZ"

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[TECHMAN007]

Due to the age of this post I had already put this into place. Thank you for the reply though. As far as where you set your screen saver settings in the policy though it is under: User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/Display.