Web screensaver
We are using a web screen saver to display company info at the logon screen. This is currently deployed to roughly 800 company machines running XP Pro. Is it possible to do this with Windows 7? It works with IE 8 on Windows XP at the logon screen. It also works correctly on Windows 7 when any user is logged on. It creates an error message (Unnexpected error; quitting) with an OK button but does not log anything to any of the machine's logs. (The program is Web Screen Saver by Philippe Vaugouin.
April 12th, 2010 9:04pm

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April 13th, 2010 12:00pm

It will not run correctly at the logon screen. Both the older version and the latest seem to have a similar issue. I have set it up (the new version posted to his site on March 4th of this year) on a domain joined machine (New Dell Optiplex 760) and a clean, fresh out of the box Dell Optiplex 780 that has is still a member of the default workgroup. The author of the software has been very silent and has not answered numerous queries as to how to make it work. Thanks though.
April 15th, 2010 9:12pm

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