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From: Dave Patrick on 13 May 2010 23:18
Its the system account (nt authority)

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

"ScreenSaveActive"="1"
"ScreenSaveTimeOut"="900"
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="logon.scr"



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"+Bob+" wrote:
> How do you select the screen saver that is used BEFORE login occurs?
> What "user" is this set for?
>
>
From: Dave Patrick on 15 May 2010 22:43
You're welcome.


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"+Bob+" wrote:
> Thanks... found it.. with the specific settings nearby.
From: Dave Patrick on 14 Jun 2010 21:22
Strange. Same thing happens here.


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"+Bob+" wrote:
> Dave (or others):
>
> Followup issue. I changed the reg settings for the .default user to
> match those that were there for my when I was normally logged in.
>
> The screen saver changed, but it did not us the text I supplied. I
> figured I must have messed up one of the reg key as I had manually
> copied the values. So, I exported the key from the logged in user,
> edited the numeric "name" of the user in the reg key to be .default,
> and imported the key back into the registry.
>
> It did not work. The marquee still displays the default "Your text
> here". Any thoughts on why it might not be picking up on the text
> value?
>
> Here's the actual key I exported, tweaked, then imported:
>
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_USERS\.default\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Marquee]
> "BackgroundColor"="0 0 128"
> "CharSet"="0"
> "Font"="Tahoma"
> "Mode"="1"
> "Size"="48"
> "Speed"="11"
> "Text"="this is the text"
> "TextColor"="192 192 192"
> "Attributes"="00010"
>
>
From: Dave Patrick on 18 Jun 2010 23:40
I don't think there was an intention for us to hack \default user hive in
this manner.




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"+Bob+" wrote:
> Any chance there's another (second) user profile involved? Obviously
> it used part of .default...
>
>

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