Screensaver settings via Group Policy

your looking at screensaver timeout right?
what about the registry
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop look for ScreenSaveTimeOut
or HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop

though I would of thought it would be same as group policy editor

Run on one of affected workstations RSoP.msc and navigate to user settings/administrative templates/control panel/display and chace which policy name is assigned there. Possibly, some GPO sets it again. Then you would know which policy should be disabled to prevent Screen Saver settings.

Thanks iSiek,
RSOP shows me the settings are down to a GPO called companywide but I have already changed settings withing that policy but those changes are not being picked up.

I have ran gpupdate and gpupdate /force on one domain controller and client PC but to no avail.

There are several domain controllers on the network, could that be causing this issue?

Do you get different results if logged in under an administrative or domain admin account?  Also, have you checked the event viewer for any errors that might be related to GPOs?  If there were any errors, they would be under the system log.

When logging on as admin there are no administrative templates as they are all set under a 'user's' group in AD. As admin I can change screensaver setting OK.

There are no errors in the log but there are notifications of group policy settings being updated successfully (not specific info on which settings).

I have forced gpupdate on all domain controllers and then on the client machine but it still has settings greyed out.

I have examined every GPO in the AD and none of them have the settings I am seeing when loggin into user's machines.

check following links

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272304
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21229516/Setting-screensaver-password-in-the-group-policy.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/217991-46-disable-screen-saver-group-policy
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815424

Thanks farjadarshad - those articles relate to configuring the group policy which I am OK with , it is just that either the GP is not updating or replication has an error as the settings when looking in GPMC differ from the settings passed through to the client.

I have logged onto each domain controller and viewed the group policy but cannot find where the problem lies.

Is it possible for maybe a login script to copy over GPO? have a look at windows\system32\grouppolicy maybe this has been set then this is copied over by some login script. just a thought.
I was looking at secedit but couldn't find screensaver options in there.

not sure how windows\system32\grouppolicy works actually, just thinking maybe something in there might point to your troubles

Thank you iSiek, it was indeed that setting the items to 'not configured' did not remove their settings on the client.

All working now! Thanks again.

You're welcome.