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Configure Screen Saver Slide Show using GPO

Hi

We have a Windows 2003 network running AD all workstation are Windows XP, SP2 - I want to have a screen saver showing some pictures which must be the same for ALL users! I'm trying to use the "ssmypics.scr" which can do this but it default's to the users "My Picture" folder and I want it to show pictures from a network drive - I don't see an option i GPO to do this?? I have found the registry setting which can do this but I don't know how to destribute it to my users.

Please help...
Kristian

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1974565712-1754454779-3683679437-1009\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Slideshow]
"ImageDirectory"="S:\\ScreenSaver\\Pics"
"PaintInterval"=dword:00000000
"ChangeInterval"=dword:00001770
"DisplayFilename"=dword:00000000
"MaxScreenPercent"=dword:0000005a
"DisableTransitions"=dword:00000000
"AllowStretching"=dword:00000000
"AllowKeyboardControl"=dword:00000001
"MaxFailedFiles"=dword:000003e8
"MaxSuccessfulFiles"=dword:00010000
"MaxDirectories"=dword:000000c8

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Also, ck out this from jsifaq:

http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBT/tip9800/rh9808.htm

rsivanandan

You should be able to do it via GPO itself.

UserConfiguration->AdminTemplates-> ControlPanel->Screensaver executable. Give the Fully Qualified path in there. Enable the screen saver option in there.

ScreenSaver->Enabled
ScreenSaver Executable->S:\ScreenSaver\Pics\ssmypics.scr

I would suggest, you to copy the screen saver to all the machines and then point the location to the local directory of individual computer. Network access is reduced that way. Not a good idea to utilize bandwidth for screensavers.

You can automatically create a script to copy the content to all the machines and it will be easy that way.

Cheers,
Rajesh