Tutorial For Making Screen Saver Boss Key In Windows 7

If you are a Windows 7 user, you can create a Boss Key, which will bring up a screen saver of your choice by pressing the particular key combination. The thing you need to understand is, even if the boss key brings up a screen saver, it is not related to the primary screen saver settings. The initial screen saver setting you have configured to initiate when your computer becomes idle is not at all affected by the boss key.  This article contains Windows support instructions for creating a screen saver boss key in Windows 7 operating system.

Windows support instructions

1.       Click on the Windows 7 “Start” button located on the taskbar. This will bring up the start menu.

2.       Enter “*.scr” in the start menu search box and hit the “Enter” key. The resulting list will have all the .scr (Screen savers) files on your computer.

3.       Locate the screen saver that you want to use for the Boss Key. Right click on the same, select the option that says, and then “Desktop”. Usually filenames are associated with the particular screen saves, but there will be some exceptions. Shortcut of the selected .scr file will be there on your desktop.

4.       If you are not sure of what file to use, go through the list given  below

·         Aurora – aurora.scr

·         Bubbles – Bubbles.scr

·         3D text – sstext3d.scr

·         Blank – scrnsave.scr

·         Windows Logo – logon.scr

·         Mystify – ssmyst.scr

·         Ribbons – ribbons.scr

·         Photos – photoscreensaver.scr

·         Windows Energy – ssBranded.scr

5.       Go to your desktop screen, right-click on the newly created shortcut, and select the option “Properties” from the given menu. This will open up the shortcut properties dialog box.

6.       Once you are in the field for shortcut key, press the key combination that you would like to have as the Boss Key. If in case you want to have your boss key screen saver customized, right click on the respective shortcut icon and select the option labeled “Configure”. Change the settings according to your wish.

7.       Hit the “Ok” button and you are done with the Boss Key creation.

Make sure to test the key combination. If every thing is ok, the screen saver will appear on your screen. But if it didn’t work, it means that there is a different program using the same combination of keys.