How to disable Screen Saver

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How to disable Screen Saver

Ka Ho Cheng 485

Our customer that requested a custom configuration for Windows 11 that they new purchase 20 PCs for public display purpose. The one of key point is no auto lock screen and no screen saver.

As security policy all general PCs are configured auto lock screen within 15 mins and screen saver within 30 min for many years ago.

For this new request, we found that the lock screen is configured by GPO, and we created another OU group for those PCs, It is tested normal that it will not lock screen within 15 mins.

However, for screen saver, we never to found the configuration of this setting. It still run the screen saver within 30 mins. And, I found that the configuration in Windows GUI is "Gray".

No any configured in Local Policy.

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Hi Ka Ho Cheng,

To fully disable the screen saver on your public display PC, you can apply the following Group Policy settings to the OU where those devices are assigned

Path: User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization

Recommended Settings:

Enable screen saver → Disabled

Password protect the screen saver → Disabled

Screen saver timeout → Set to 0 (or leave Not Configured if "Enable screen saver" is disabled)

These settings will prevent the screen saver from activating and override any inherited policies from higher-level GPOs.

If you're managing these devices via Microsoft Intune, you can configure the same settings using Administrative Templates as here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/configuration/tutorial-walkthrough-administrative-templates

After applying the policy, you can run the following command on a target machine to verify the settings: gpresult /h report.html

Hope this helps!

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