It also ensures that screen burn-in doesn’t occur if a user displays just one picture on the screen as a screen saver. Some companies require that all users use a specific screen saver to present a more professional appearance in front of clients.īy denying users the ability to change the screen saver, there is no need to worry about clients seeing a sea of personal photographs and other images displayed on the screens of the computers in an office setting. Click on the Enabled option, click the OK button, and you are done.Īlthough not as important as it was years ago, many administrators prefer to set up screen savers on PCs in a work environment to prevent screen burn-in and then prevent users from changing them. If you or no one else has ever changed this setting before, it should still be set to Not Configured by default. You should now be looking at the Prevent Changing Screen Saver window. Locate and double click on a policy titled Prevent Changing Screen Saver. The right hand pane now displays the local group policies located in the Personalization folder. Open the folder at User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization. Notice that in the left hand pane there are expandable folders. You just opened the Local Group Policy Editor.