Keyboard shortcut for screensaver

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How do I create a keyboard shortcut to activate my screensaver?

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But how do I set a hotkey for the shortcut to the screensaver. I just want a
shortcut to hide my screen if someone walks in that I don't want seeing
what's on my screen. I can't find the program to even set a hotkey for.....

"David Candy" wrote:

> You can't. If you just want to look at the pretty pictures just create a shortcut to the screensaver and set a hotkey for the shortcut (see help on how to set hotkeys). But this is the screensaver acting as a normal program (that draws pretty things) not as a screensaver.
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> Winkey + L is the security hotkey.
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Help will tell you how to set a hotkey. Basically right click a shortcut, choose Properties and look. The think to note is it MUST be on the desktop or start menu for a hotkey to work.

Screensavers are in C:\windows\system32 with the extension of scr and description of Screen Saver (and for most of them their name's start with SS). Select one, Edit menu - Copy then go to the desktop and right click a blank spot and choose Paste Shortcut.

Winkey + L is the way provided for this purpose (hiding the screen) but it doesn't show pretty pictures (well it does after 10 minutes). The downside of starting a screensaver this way is it won't ask for a password and other programs can interfere with it. Normally windows starts a second desktop and shows the screensaver there so nothing on your desktop can interfere with it (like an error dialog).

Also any program can be made a screensaver. I was using notepad the other day in an experiment. It's not very good.
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"Susan S" <SusanS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BC5B8C7B-6731-428E-9FC7-82FA5750AB98@microsoft.com...
>I guess the better question is.....how do I create a shortcut to my
> screensaver???
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> "Susan S" wrote:
>
>> But how do I set a hotkey for the shortcut to the screensaver. I just want a
>> shortcut to hide my screen if someone walks in that I don't want seeing
>> what's on my screen. I can't find the program to even set a hotkey for.....
>>
>> "David Candy" wrote:
>>
>> > You can't. If you just want to look at the pretty pictures just create a shortcut to the screensaver and set a hotkey for the shortcut (see help on how to set hotkeys). But this is the screensaver acting as a normal program (that draws pretty things) not as a screensaver.
>> >
>> > Winkey + L is the security hotkey.
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>> > http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archive [...] 01075.html
>> > =================================================
>> > "Susan S" <SusanS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F6EDF985-7701-465F-94CC-44DB0B6B1DA8@microsoft.com...
>> > > How do I create a keyboard shortcut to activate my screensaver?
>> >

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Locking your worksation does hide the desktop.

windowskey + L

If you are ambitious:
http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/ [...] 37723.aspx

For us lazy people:
http://www.starfishbay.com/handything/basics.shtml

or
http://embedsoft.tripod.com/ABossScreen.html

--
Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
-- Marty Feldman
"Susan S" <SusanS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC5B8C7B-6731-428E-9FC7-82FA5750AB98@microsoft.com...
>I guess the better question is.....how do I create a shortcut to my
> screensaver???
>
> "Susan S" wrote:
>
>> But how do I set a hotkey for the shortcut to the screensaver. I just
>> want a
>> shortcut to hide my screen if someone walks in that I don't want seeing
>> what's on my screen. I can't find the program to even set a hotkey
>> for.....
>>
>> "David Candy" wrote:
>>
>> > You can't. If you just want to look at the pretty pictures just create
>> > a shortcut to the screensaver and set a hotkey for the shortcut (see
>> > help on how to set hotkeys). But this is the screensaver acting as a
>> > normal program (that draws pretty things) not as a screensaver.
>> >
>> > Winkey + L is the security hotkey.
>> >
>> > --
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archive [...] 01075.html
>> > =================================================
>> > "Susan S" <SusanS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:F6EDF985-7701-465F-94CC-44DB0B6B1DA8@microsoft.com...
>> > > How do I create a keyboard shortcut to activate my screensaver?
>> >