Comments on: Create Shortcut Icon to Disable / Enable the Screensaver

By: Brubaker

Brubaker — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:16:01 +0000

This little utility is exactly what I needed.

When making full system backups, I prefer shutdown everything that isn’t actually needed at the time. I use a script to do that, but hadn’t found a way to stop the screensaver. This works perfectly. Thanks.

By: Selvan

Selvan — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:06:03 +0000

My favorite Screen Saver Toggler, it lets you know if it’s currently ON or OFF and offers a button to toggle it. http://lastborns.esmartweb.com/sst.rar

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:36:01 +0000

This is similar to what I’m looking for but not exactly. What I want is a way to ‘manually’ turn on the screensaver for Vista just by moving my cursor pointer to the top/bottom, left/right edge of the desktop screen (and only the full desktop screen). Moving the cursor away from those positions (on the full desktop – have to stress this: only on the full desktop screen when it has full focus, not when some other program is being used in a non-maximised window where some of the desktop screen is showing) should allow the default screensaver settings to take over. Is there anything like that available?

By: Selvan Poothamby

Selvan Poothamby — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:45:54 +0000

I took the vbs above in my previous post and made it into a GUI using AutoHotkey.
It opens a window to display the current state and offers a button to toggle it.
And it’s less than 200 KB.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/sur.....oggler.exe

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:08:05 +0000

for those of you with problems problems making the shortcut

i believe you can format it as “[path]\FlipSS.exe” -on

By: Spreadsheet Ninja

Spreadsheet Ninja — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:14:42 +0000

Thanks for the program idea, I went with Tamil’s suggestion about Caffeine. Only reason was that I could not download anything from jddesign’s website. It was just sooo slow! OMG!! Not to mention caffeine is a tiny tiny program. Great suggestion Tamil!

By: selvan777

selvan777 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:23:09 +0000

Hi,

Did someone mention toggle the screen saver? Check this out!

Open notepad, paste the below text into it, save it as Whatever.vbs, place it wherever you wish and create a shortcut to it in the Quick Launch toolbar.

I can’t take credit for it as I did not write it.

Const HKCU = &H80000001
Set oReg=GetObject(”winmgmts:!root/default:StdRegProv”)
oReg.GetStringValue HKCU,”control panel\desktop”,”ScreenSaveActive”,screensaveractive
Select case screensaveractive
case “1″
screensaveractive = “0″
oReg.SetStringValue HKCU,”control panel\desktop”,”ScreenSaveActive”,screensaveractive
msgbox “Disabled”,vbinformation,”Screen Saver Switch”
Case “0″
screensaveractive = “1″
oReg.SetStringValue HKCU,”control panel\desktop”,”ScreenSaveActive”,screensaveractive
msgbox “Enabled”,vbinformation,”Screen Saver Switch”
End Select

By: Selvan

Selvan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:14:05 +0000

Hi,

I didn’t try the flipss.exe but when looking to improve the trick I found below, I saw this thread and had to add to it. My intent is to help in the solution of easily turning the screen saver on and off.

Here’s a way to just toggle it from one state to the other (if it’s ON it will be turned OFF and if it’s OFF it will be turned ON). Simply open notepad, paste the below text into it, save it as Whatever and place it Wherever you wish. I put mine in the C: drive, created a shortcut to it in the Quick Launch toolbar and named it Screen Saver Switch. But I can’t take credit for it as I did not write it.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:41:05 +0000

N.B. You have to have a screen saver enabled for this command to work. I assume that it is disabling/enabling the �ScreenSaveActive� registry key under “HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\”.

By: Adam C.

Adam C. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:07:53 +0000

if you save it in the “Program Files” folder set the target to:

“C:\Progra~1\FlipSS\flipss.exe” /on
“C:\Progra~1\FlipSS\flipss.exe” /off

(”and on vista you may need to do:”)
sorry i messed that up ^…. i ment to
say if your running 64bit (x64) windows
vista or xp then you must do…

“C:\Progra~2\FlipSS\flipss.exe” /on
“C:\Progra~2\FlipSS\flipss.exe” /off