Missing Screen Saver Tab

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"MJS" wrote in message
news:

My windows XP is missing the Screen Saver Tab in the display settings
window.
I currently have no screen saver - does anyone know a way I could get the
screen saver set up and/or get that tab back?

I used to have vista, but about a year ago when I couldn't handle the bugs
anymore I did a clean install of WinXP.

MJS wrote:

My windows XP is missing the Screen Saver Tab in the display settings window.
I currently have no screen saver - does anyone know a way I could get the
screen saver set up and/or get that tab back?

Hi MJS

The screen saver tab is enabled and disabled via a Registry setting. If
the tab on your system has disappeared, it's likely something turned it
off in the Registry.

Full details are in this Microsoft KnowledgeBase article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921049

In summary, check the following two Registry locations:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

If you find a value named NoDispScrSavPage at either location, either
delete it; or change it to a value of 0. You need to reboot for the
change to take effect.

You shouldn't need to download or use any third-party tools to fix this.
Windows' own built-in Regedit is sufficient.

You'd probably want to do a thorough antivirus and malware scan - the
screen saver may have been disabled by some malicious software.

Hope it helps,
Andrew

amclar at optusnet dot com dot au

Thanks Andrew, this worked perfectly.

"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

MJS wrote:
> My windows XP is missing the Screen Saver Tab in the display settings window.
> I currently have no screen saver - does anyone know a way I could get the
> screen saver set up and/or get that tab back?

Hi MJS

The screen saver tab is enabled and disabled via a Registry setting. If
the tab on your system has disappeared, it's likely something turned it
off in the Registry.

Full details are in this Microsoft KnowledgeBase article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921049

In summary, check the following two Registry locations:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

If you find a value named NoDispScrSavPage at either location, either
delete it; or change it to a value of 0. You need to reboot for the
change to take effect.

You shouldn't need to download or use any third-party tools to fix this.
Windows' own built-in Regedit is sufficient.

You'd probably want to do a thorough antivirus and malware scan - the
screen saver may have been disabled by some malicious software.

Hope it helps,
Andrew

amclar at optusnet dot com dot au

MJS wrote:

Thanks Andrew, this worked perfectly.

Sweet! Thanks for letting us know!

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"MJS" wrote in message
news:

My windows XP is missing the Screen Saver Tab in the display settings
window.
I currently have no screen saver - does anyone know a way I could get the
screen saver set up and/or get that tab back?

I used to have vista, but about a year ago when I couldn't handle the
bugs
anymore I did a clean install of WinXP.