screen saver

[storm97]

can u make a batch file open your screen saver over whatever it's doing?

[foxidrive]

Here's something I wrote several years ago to start a random screen saver. I don't have Win 7 to test it with but it still works in XP.

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@echo off
:: Start a random screensaver
if "%1"=="!" "Blank Screen.scr" /s & goto :EOF
set /a count=0
echo dummy>"%temp%.\scrnsaver.tmp"
for /f "delims=" %%a in (
 'dir "%systemroot%\*.scr" /s /b ^|find /i /v ".script"'
  ) do echo %%a>>"%temp%.\scrnsaver.tmp"&set /a count+=1
ping -n 1 -w %random% 127.0.0.1 >nul
ping -n 1 -w %random% 127.0.0.1 >nul
ping -n 1 -w %random% 127.0.0.1 >nul
ping -n 1 -w %random% 127.0.0.1 >nul
ping -n 1 -w %random% 127.0.0.1 >nul
set /a ssnum=1+(%random% %% %count%)
if %ssnum% GEQ %count% %0
for /f "skip=%ssnum% delims=" %%a in (
'type "%temp%.\scrnsaver.tmp"') do (
if /i "%%~nxa"=="Blank Screen.scr" %0
if /i "%%~nxa"=="scrnsave.scr" %0
start "" "%%a" /s
del "%temp%.\scrnsaver.tmp"
goto :EOF
)