If you need any help let me know in the comments section below. That's it - you'll have your screensaver at the logon screen then. Here you can enable a visual delay before the corner action is triggered or launch a custom command. Right click the tray icon and select Advanced to get another configuration window. ScreenSaveTimeOut = 60 (or whatever timeout you want in seconds) The available functions in the drop down menus are show all windows, show the desktop, start the screensaver, turn the monitor off or open the Action Center. SCRNSAVE.EXE = C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32LOGON.SCR (or whatever your file is called). Default Control Panel Desktopīelow this key create the following REG_SZ values. Now, open the registry editor and go to HKEY_USERS. The file will be in C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32 - copy it to the same location on your Windows 7 machine.
With this in mind you can either download one of your choosing from the web or grab the LOGON.SCR file from a Vista machine. One of the problems that you have is that Direct3D support is not enabled on the login screen which means you can't use any of the Windows 7 stock screensavers. To open Control Panel, on your keyboard press the Windows key + R, then on the Run dialog type control and. You can enable the logon screensaver by adding a couple of registry values. Disable Windows screen saver and monitor standby.