How To Change Screen Saver Settings On Windows 10

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If you are trying to set a screen saver on your computer, but the Screen saver settings are greyed out in Windows 11/10, then this mail will show y'all how to fix it. When this happens, you might non be able to set whatever screens saver, preview the screen saver, and brand other changes related to screen saver.

If you have multiple user accounts and someone has disabled a detail setting in Group Policy Editor, you lot might not be able to use the Screen Saver settings window. Therefore, you demand to revert the change to get the options working again.

TIP: See this post if Screensaver is not working.

Screen saver settings greyed out in Windows eleven/10

To fix screen saver settings greyed out problem in Windows 11/10, follow these steps:

Open Local Group Policy Editor
Search for Enable screen saver setting
Enable information technology or fix information technology to Not configured

These steps are demonstrated below.

Open the Local Grouping Policy Editor on your calculator. For that, you tin press Win+R, blazon gpedit.msc, and hit the Enter button. Alternatively, you can search "group policy editor" in the Taskbar search box, and click the respective search result.

Afterwards opening the Local Group Policy Editor, you need to navigate to this path:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization

After clicking the Personalization folder, y'all will find Enable screen saver settings on your correct-hand side. You need to double-click on this setting to make the modify.

Past default, it should be prepare to Non Configured. As your Screen Saver Settings window's options are already greyed out, you may detect information technology gear up to Disabled.

Yous need to select either Not Configured or Enabled from the list and click the Apply and OK buttons.

If the above-mentioned modify doesn't work, you need to check the Password protect the screen saver setting too. In this example, make sure Non Configured is selected. If non, cull this choice and relieve the change.

Hope this helps.

Related read: How to forestall Users from changing the Screensaver in Windows.

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