Screensaver On/Off/Auto

[alecjw]

Ok, the idea is it's an icon which sits in your <thing on the bottom right hand corner of your screen>. Click on it and a meu opens with the options On/Off/Auto. If you click On, your screensaver immediately starts; if you click off, your screensaver will never come on. If you select auto, the program does nothing and just lets the screensaver come on when you had set it to.

[Carol Haynes]

Fun little freebie here that does most of what you want and more:

http://www.stardustsoftware.com/downloads/tools/sscontrol3/

[alecjw]

Thanks. I tried checking if one existed but I couldn't think of what to search for.

[brotherS]

Fun little freebie here that does most of what you want and more:

http://www.stardustsoftware.com/downloads/tools/sscontrol3/

Nice find, thanks!

[Carol Haynes]

Strange but my system is totally screwed and it doesn't work for me (even though I recommended it).

I used it until a couple of years ago but having installed the latest version from the website all it will let me do is set the default screensaver - non of the other functions seem to work. Anyone else having problems?

I get the impression something got messed up on my system when I reinstalled windows recently as I had some problems installing a particular driver (Logitech) and the tool they supplied to sort it out deleted a lot of unrelated registry entries.

Looks like my New Year's resolution is going to be to reinstall again from scratch!

[brotherS]

Hmm, right after I installed it I was able to launch a screensaver from it, now I don't? Might be related to other problems my Windows has today though...

[skrommel]

Try mine!

TrayScreenSaver - Control the screensaver from the tray.

Features:
- Doubleclick the tray icon to run the default screensaver.
- Singleclick to enable or disable the screensaver.
- Or use the tray menu.

You'll find the downloads and more info at Skrommel Software.

Skrommel

[brotherS]

Thanks, works perfectly!

What does it need two tray icons for? One looks like a keyboard, the other like a blurry notepad. Clicking it once toggles "enabled", but what for?

[mouser]

another cool skrommel utility

i don't know if its possible or how hard it would be, but it would be fun if the menu had a list of all configured screensave and you could start any one of them.


ps.
please remember to make a donation to skrommel to support his work, just click his green $ or the paypal button on his page.

[skrommel]

I uploaded an older verison, please try the correct one now!

Skrommel

[brotherS]

Ah, tray icon(s) looking MUCH better now

But what does "enable" do? Will it disable the screensaver completely when unchecked?

[skrommel]

Yep!

Skrommel

[skywalka]

I've been using NoSleep! for years without a problem.  Though the icons seem to be back to front.

http://www.geocities.com/helmi79/software/software.html?200619

[Jammo the OrganizedFellow]

SWEEET!

I was looking for a screensaver automatic thingie that would launch the screensaver when I moved my mouse cursor to a corner of my screen.
I went looking and looking, didn't find a thing! Then came upon this thread, downloaded Skrommels RunScreenSaver?

The plan, see?, was to launch it from within FARR ... hahaha, I didn't know that FARR would launch the default screensaver with no added 'anything'!

So, thanks Skrommel for some excellent software!
And, thanks Mouser for FARR! haha, I didn't know I could just launch farr and type: SCREEN