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Automate Screen Saver Settings

The Screen Saver Manager helps you to manage screen saver settings directly or create shortcuts for batchfiles and scheduling. Change screen saver, stop it with scheduler, start with password protection, set time-out within seconds (!), enable/disable screen saver, set/reset password protection, enter standby mode.

Nutek Power Management

A recurring question concerning the NT and video groups regards monitor power management for NT. As you know, NT 4.0 does not have native power management.

However, many monitors now support the new Nutek power management standard. This feature turns off monitor power, even in NT, when a totally blank screen is detected.

The Screen Saver Ghostlet was developed to change screen savers from, let's say, Flying Stars, to a blank screen at a scheduled time. This enables the use of the Nutek feature and provides power management for Windows NT!

You can use the non-blank saver most of the time, for example, from 9 AM to 5 PM, and then switch to the blank screen until 9 AM the following morning (a blank.scr could be used) to turn off power. You don't want to use the blank saver all day because switching power on and off constantly reduces monitor life as a result of thermal cycling. During the "blank period", the blank.scr would act as a normal screen saver, allowing the use of the monitor when keyboard or mouse activity wakes it up, then powering down again after the screen saver time-out interval.

There is a slight trick to switch a screen saver in NT when another is already running. You first need to stop the one running to select a new one.

Change Screen Saver from time to time

And even if you don't use power management, you might still want to change screen savers from time to time. To switch screen savers call up the following command from 12Ghosts Timer:

Start Path: 12scrsav.exe
Parameters: /stop /change:scrnsave.scr /start

You can also specify a full path after the parameter "/change:", for example:

12scrsav.exe /stop /change:"c:\My Screen Savers\TheBest.scr" /start

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