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[niwi]

Hi everybody,

I have a question: does someone knows a freeware transparent screen saver? If you are asking why do I need a transparent screen saver? The answer is to see what is on my screen, but if someone tries to access the computer the password has to be entered.

There exists a lot of such screen savers, but I haven't found a free one...

NiWi.

[Guest]

You could create it yourself with AutoHotkey

Take a look at Rajat's SystemSaver for an example of how to create a screensaver with AutoHotkey.

Here are some more postings on the subject: Screensaver with password, Creating a screensaver from scratch... Search the forums for more...

[niwi]

Hi,

I'm not sure if AHK can do this because the script have need to make screenshots of the hole screen while displaying a picture and I have to display this screenshot. For the second part I just see to save the screenshot to a file and re-read the picture in a loop (or trigger by a timer).

So the questions are:
1. How to make a screenshow from the whole screen? (ok, it should not be a problem to hide the window, make a screenshot, refresh the picture and show the window).
2. Is there a way to show pictures out of the clipboard?

Or has someone a better idea how to do this?

NiWi.

[Titan]

I know a way to do it (differently though):

[WinXP Pro]
Set your screensaver to 'None'
Use an ahk script to send '#l' every interval (e.g. SetTimer for every 5mins) and pass-procect your windows account.
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[niwi]

Hi Titan,

but this will just lock the screen. I'd like to have a screen blanker which will not blank the screen it should just deny user inputs...

NiWi.

[BoBo]

What about a fullscreen, frameless, transparent hta.app - accompanied by a disabled mouse (and maybe a remapped CTRL key to prevent that jonny is bypassing the PW with CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill that process) ?

[niwi]

Hi,

I've the first version now, what do you think about it? The next problem is:
windows seems to blank the screen out / show just the background picture before starting the screen saver...

[niwi]

Hi,

I've found this: if the checkbox for the password prompt is checked, the window list is almost empty:

[jonny]

[niwi]

Hi Jonny,

[MYYM]

[MYYM]

I think this works better than my last post

[Wingfat]

Not sure if it matters to you or not.. but i think on my home PC i paid for some crazy dolphin screen saver for my wife. It has a Tranpara mode where when the screen saver is active it shows the desk top and what ever programs are running and puts the screen saver or it. it has dolphins that jump, but you can set how many and how often. I use it so when i am downloading stuff of the net i can sit back in my other room and just peek into the computer room to see how the downloads are going with out having to worry about DL program to get burned into the monitor.. if possible i can try and email you the saver if you want to check it out.
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[niwi]

Hi,

I'm not looking for a password protection replacement. The password question from windows is ok.

I just like to have a console where anybody can see what's going on. For this I'd like a transparent screen saver. But if someone tries to change he / she will be prompted for the user password.

If I just use an AHK script asking for password, there is no problem to kill this app with ALT-F4 or using the task manager.

NiWi.

[MYYM]