Comments for How do I delete the default screensavers in Windows XP?

Comment from Love Fabillar on 2010-05-04

2010-05-04T11:20:50Z

Very clear explanation, thanks for that! Aside from getting it done, I actually understood what I was doing. :)

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Comment from Selva Iris on 2009-04-12

2009-04-12T19:45:17Z

Thank you very much!! You help me to delete xp default screensavers. I tried many times before but never I can do it. Have this screensavers in my list was very irritant for me. Sorry for my english.

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Comment from Some Random Computer Hacker Trying to Delete the Internet on 2009-02-12

2009-02-12T23:56:36Z

This page helped a lot! I wasn't actually trying to delete the screensavers, just put a shortcut on the start menu to my favorite, so I needed to know where they were stored. Thanks!

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Comment from Larry " Packfanok" on 2009-02-10

2009-02-10T19:39:28Z

I added some screen savers and could not figure out how to delete them. Did a search on Google, and found this web page. Glad I did. Answered my question 100%. I had to change my view folder option to list from icon. Made it a whole lot easier to find the .scr files I was looking for. I subscribed to the ask-leo newsletter pronto, that's for sure. Looking for more tips in the newsletters. Thanks a bunch for the help with my question.

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Comment from Mike Romete on 2008-10-23

2008-10-24T01:32:46Z

Thanks! My reason for getting rid of them (actually, moving them to another folder) is that I have software that will cycle through all the screensavers, making each the default in turn. I don't want the "standard" screensavers included in the list to cycle. Anybody who doesn't understand or approve, well... who cares? :)

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Comment from arjun on 2008-10-15

2008-10-15T08:08:31Z

whats the use of deleting any application or file for that matter that originally ( by default ) windows has provided with its operating system. it is really stupid to play with system32 folder for a petty thing like deleting a few screensavers thats not even gonna occupy 0.1 percent of ur harddisk space.

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Comment from TC Blake on 2008-09-24

2008-09-24T15:22:23Z

My complete screensaver option is gone from my XP Pro!!?? Also, when I put a photo on desktop, the tab to tile,center,spread is gone?? Where can I get these back??

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Comment from greg on 2008-09-04

2008-09-05T02:20:37Z

I did the delete trick in both locations, but the name of the screensaver still remains in the list of screensavers. I can click on the name of the screensaver and it says it has been removed. Just reboot for total removal. This did not remove it either.

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Comment from Daniel on 2008-05-15

2008-05-16T02:46:43Z

Dude! Thanks so much. I was wondering how to do this. I clicked a bad .exe i downloaded and it installed spyware on my computer. I deleted the spyware part, but all these beetles would appear and gnaw away at my screen saying: "your computer might have spyware" (this was an effect of the spyware). Now both the spyware and the nasty effect is gone. Thanks so much!

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Comment from Geoff Walker on 2008-04-27

2008-04-27T16:41:32Z

It's not always about disk space. I work in a large corporation where IT automatically runs a daily job on my PC that (among many other things) enables a screensaver. They do this as part of a security policy which requires re-signing on after an inactivity timeout. But I want to control this myself. When I'm in the office, I want my PC (a laptop) to remain on with the screen going dark after 10 minutes of inactivity without the need to re-sign on again. When I'm on the road, I always turn on the "Prompt for password when the computer resumes from standby" option. So in my case, I want to delete the screensavers as one means of trying to circumvent the action of the daily IT job. Also, running a screensaver is definitely not very green, since it uses more power than simply using the Power Options to make the screen go dark after a timeout.

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Comment from Albert Taal on 2008-04-25

2008-04-26T03:25:34Z

Why go to all this trouble to delete a few screen savers they only take a tiny bit of disk space the average disk is measured is 40 GB up to 1 TB the default screen savers take less the 10 MB. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth.

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