Change Screen Saver Settings in Windows 10  

antspants said:

That one is even better, thanks, it's awesome! Such a clever bloke you are Brink :)

You're most welcome. :)

Brink I have come across a couple of things that will cause me to undo that registry hack (unless you have a fix)

After merging the reg file and after reboot I am faced with desktop icons overlapping and duplicating also. Hard to see but there is also a shadow of taskbar functions


Shadow on taskbar (under yellow highlight)


Duplicate icons/overlapping

If you mean from the "Personalize (classic)" context menu, then it's not possible for it to cause those issues since it doesn't affect any of their registry entries.

It only gets added to the desktop context menu which is completely unrelated to the issues you described.

It looks like you have some sort of blurring affect going on there. Does refreshing (F5) the desktop clear it up?

You might also right click on your desktop, and click/tap on View and Align to grid to make sure it's checked to prevent your desktop icons from overlapping each other.

Turn On or Off Align Desktop Icons to Grid in Windows 10 - Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

Some other items to check:

• Latest graphics driver installed.
• DPI scaling set to default 100%.
• Using recommended screen resolution.

Thanks Brink. I should of posted this issue in the correct reg hack thread.

i rebuilt the icon cache and realized I bought a program called "IconRestorer" because 10 always resets my icons on my first monitor where as I like them on all 5 monitors.

After rebuilding cache and restoring the desktops with icon restorer, all is fixed. So my bad
Cheers brink
Ant.

Glad you got it sorted. :)

Hello Luuk, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

What are you using to open PDF files with?

It may have a setting to temporarily disable screen saver while full screen.

Does it do this when you have the PDF maximized instead of full screen?

@lverhoor,

I've done some more research on this, and you might check the items below to see if you may have a group policy set to be disabled for screen saver on full screen. It's for Windows Media Player, but there are reports of it affecting full screen for other programs as well. It'll be worth a check.

If you have Windows 10 Pro, then check Group Policy (gpedit.msc) below to make sure the "Allow Screen Saver" policy is set to "Not Configured".

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Media Player\Playback




Here's the registry (regedit.exe) entry for it below as well. You would want to delete the EnableScreenSaver DWORD if there. You may need to restart the computer afterwards to apply.

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer]
"EnableScreenSaver"=dword:00000000