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How to setup a Windows screen saver for Windows 7 through Group Policy.

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We had Windows 2008 Domain controllers and migrated the DCs to Windows 2012.

We have started upgrading our PC from windows XP to 7.
The Screen saver kicks off in 10 minutes on our old XP PC but not on the new windows 7 PC.
If I am right it is looking for Screen saver settings related to windows 7 in the GPO and unable to find.
Do I need to create a separate screen save GPO for a windows 7 screen saver? I have not done this in the past .
Please post me some tutorial s how this can be achieved

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Iain MacMillan

might have been a little easier under 2008 or 2008R2, we have just completed Win 7 migrations, but held back upgrading the DC's to 2012 R2, as there a lot of policy/GPO and WSUS minefields to watch out for.

That said, if you have created a Win 7 default policy, you can set screensaver and wallpaper settings via USER CONFIGURATION-->ADMIN TEMPLATES-->CLASSIC ADMIN TEMPLATES-->CONTROL PANEL-->DISPLAY

There you can set your SCR location, name and timeout requirement, as well as preventing wallpaper being changed.

Remaining wallpaper setting is under DESKTOP-->ACTIVE DESKTOP -- hook up to your test OU

test out with the usual GPUPDATE /force on any test system

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