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how to force running screen saver immediately?

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Maurice

Flightless Bird
hello:

is it possible to force the screen saver immediately??

thanks

M.
 
T

thanatoid

Flightless Bird
"Maurice" <morisaab@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> hello:
>
> is it possible to force the screen saver immediately??
>
> thanks
>
> M.


Look in any big software site under "desktop utilities" There
are thousands of them and many include a screen saver control
which includes a key shortcut or a tray button or a screen
corner to start it instantly. Many include stuff which you may
consider useless, to it's worth trying a few. My favorite of 10+
years, which, strangely enough, works in XP as well, is
ssswitch. It is so old all I can find now are crack sites - some
probably supply the whole program because it's very small. BTW,
most of those sites do NOT put malware in their programs/cracks,
it's a myth. Besides, scanning EVERYTHING you DL is a basic. If
you want, I can upload it to a file share site for you. Let me
know.
 
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Maurice

Flightless Bird
"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Maurice" <morisaab@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e9WfHNhkKHA.1864@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> hello:
>>
>> is it possible to force the screen saver immediately??
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> M.
>>

>
>
> Instantly activate a screen saver:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/screensaver.mspx
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP [Mail]
> Imperial Beach, CA
>


Thanks for reply!!
In fact, they said to create a shortcut in the Desktop for the concerned
screen saver, but in the same time, I have text files for another software
that have the .scr extension, so I changed the file properties to open my
text editor when clicking on those files. so what's the executable file
(*.exe) that launchs a screen saver, so I can create a batch file that
launch it with appropriate file (*.scr)

thanks

Maurice
 
J

Jose

Flightless Bird
On Jan 10, 11:37 am, "Maurice" <moris...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> hello:
>
> is it possible to force the screen saver immediately??
>
> thanks
>
> M.


If you need a boss key, there are lots to select from a Google search:

boss key

Ka-pow!
 
B

Bruce Hagen

Flightless Bird
"Maurice" <morisaab@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:uREindhkKHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Maurice" <morisaab@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:e9WfHNhkKHA.1864@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> hello:
>>>
>>> is it possible to force the screen saver immediately??
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> M.
>>>

>>
>>
>> Instantly activate a screen saver:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/screensaver.mspx
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP [Mail]
>> Imperial Beach, CA
>>

>
> Thanks for reply!!
> In fact, they said to create a shortcut in the Desktop for the concerned
> screen saver, but in the same time, I have text files for another
> software that have the .scr extension, so I changed the file properties
> to open my text editor when clicking on those files. so what's the
> executable file (*.exe) that launchs a screen saver, so I can create a
> batch file that launch it with appropriate file (*.scr)
>
> thanks
>
> Maurice
>



You're welcome & good work on your part.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA
 
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SC Tom

Flightless Bird
"Maurice" <morisaab@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e9WfHNhkKHA.1864@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> hello:
>
> is it possible to force the screen saver immediately??
>
> thanks
>
> M.
>
>
>


I like this one: http://www.brianapps.net/saverstarter/

I was running it when I was have a screen saver problem with XP. Don't know
what was causing it, and have no idea of what fixed it, but after only
working sporadically for about 6 months, it has work as it's supposed to for
the last 2 or 3 months. (I'm sure I just jinxed it- it'll probably not work
again now.)
--
SC Tom
 
G

Greg Russell

Flightless Bird
In news:-OKQiy0hkKHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
Maurice <morisaab@hotmail.com> typed:

> In fact, they said to create a shortcut in the Desktop for the
> concerned screen saver, but in the same time, I have text files for
> another software that have the .scr extension, so I changed the file
> properties to open my text editor when clicking on those files. so
> what's the executable file (*.exe) that launchs a screen saver, so I
> can create a batch file that launch it with appropriate file (*.scr)


If you hadn't changed the application association to a text editor, you
could have simply placed the *.scr file in your Startup folder.
 
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