Getting Rid of XP's default screen savers

Published on December 21, 2004 By Old_Crab In Personal Computing

Once more without messing up (hopefully). Does anyone know how to get rid of Win XP's default screen savers?

Comments

WOM

on Dec 21, 2004

Hum, didn't know they had any> Guess I'll have to go look.

Old_Crab

on Dec 21, 2004

This is of course embarrasing. 3 Posts for such a silly question. The savers are 3D flower box,pipes,text,flying objects. They drive me nuts trying to rid myself of them.

yrag

on Dec 21, 2004

I'm sure I'm missing something,but.......

........disable them in Display Properties

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Snowman

on Dec 21, 2004

In your Windows\system32 folder look for any files named:
ss3dfo.scr
ssbezier.scr
ssflwbox.scr
ssmarque.scr
ssmypics.scr
ssmyst.scr
sspipes.scr
ssstars.scr
sstext3d.scr

Those are the screensavers installed with XP

-OZZY-

on Dec 22, 2004

why use a screensaver......just turn of your screen
that's cheaper 2 !!

Old_Crab

on Dec 22, 2004

O.K. here's the real problem. The savers are in a Backup dll that when the savers are deleted they are automatically restored. Cracking into the dll is not advised by MS. I've tried to delete them by going into the system32 folder and deleting them but to no avail. Why use a screensaver!?! Why they're purdy that's why! Thanks away ya'll. I guess I'm stuck.

GhoS

on Dec 22, 2004

Are they really taking up so much space that you need to delete them? I suppose you'd rather not have them in the list, but that seems to be a minor problem as I doubt you change the saver that ofte.
I agree with a previous poster though that there is no need for a screensaver. I don't even look at the screen if I'm not using the pc and its better to have the screen off to save energy. It comes on quick enough by moving the mouse or hitting a key if I should need to use the pc.

Thomas Thomassen

on Dec 24, 2004

Easier to simply set XP to not use screensavers than to hack the system to get rid fo the files.

I just have my monitor power off after a while. That is, I do that on my LCD monitor as it's so quick to turn on and off. The old monitor on my parents computer takes a while until the picture appear.

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