KHolmes
9th May 2003 02:49 UTC
Screen Saver
Hello I am trying to make an installer that would install my screen saver on any system.. Win 98 Windows 2000 NT XP etc..
I just used the Basic.nsi and added this line that I found on another post on this board
ExecWait 'rundll32.exe desk.cpl,InstallScreenSaver "$INSTDIR\myscreensaver.scr"'
Compiles good when I run the file it says installing etc.. then the screen saver control panel comes up. I see my screen saver in the list I click it hit apply then finish the installation. When I go back to my screen saver control panel my screen saver is no longer there.
The post that I copied that code from said that the command was the same as right clicking on the scr and then clicking install
I am running on Windows XP
Any help would greatly be appreciated
firefly2442
9th May 2003 04:00 UTC
I believe the .scr file needs to be installed to the windows directory. Try automatically installing the file there and see if it works, that way the person doesn't have to choose where to install it. :)
KHolmes
11th May 2003 03:37 UTC
Shouldn't this automatically make the screen saver the default?
WriteRegStr HKCU "Control Panel\Desktop" "SCRNSAVE.EXE" "C:\WINDOWS\test.SCR"
When it executes it removes the SCRNSAVE.EXE value from the registry.
gwobbel
28th March 2007 15:28 UTC
I've been reading several threads on the forum about setting the current screen saver.
When I tried:
WriteRegStr HKCU "Control Panel\Desktop" "SCRNSAVE.EXE" "$WINDIR\LongScreensaverName.scr"
it didn't work. I found that the screen saver registry entry needed to be a dos 8.3 filename:
Var /GLOBAL "DOS83"
GetFullPathName /SHORT $DOS83 "$WINDIR\LongScreensaverName.scr"
WriteRegStr HKCU "Control Panel\Desktop" "SCRNSAVE.EXE" $DOS83
Joel
29th March 2007 02:14 UTC
My screensavers are in $SYSDIR
Brummelchen
30th March 2007 00:59 UTC
WriteRegStr HKCU "Control Panel\Desktop" "SCRNSAVE.EXE" "$WINDIR\LongScreensaverName.scr"
Only works with short names as mentioned - but it works - see example above.
>> My screensavers are in $SYSDIR
common used - but windir also works - it depends of the saver itself.
eg. 3planesoft only uses sysdir, nufsoft can use both