Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Instantly Set a Screensaver Away Message

I think personally this is pretty neat and useful tool. This tool helps you set your screensave message w/o going to your screensaver settings..blah blah...just 1 click of a button and go.



Have a look

http://lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2008/04/ssController.zip


From
http://lifehacker.com/374795/instantly-set-a-screensaver-away-message

Jim writes:

I am often drawn away from desk throughout the day, and often without my laptop. I find it helpful to my coworkers to leave a note to where I've disappeared to, so I've written a VB script called ssController. SsController takes a string and uses it as the text for the default Windows screensavers "3DText" and "Marquee" then launches th 'saver, bypassing any timeout you might have set.
Once you save Jim's VB script and set a keyboard shortcut for it, invoke the script and you get a prompt that looks like this:

Type in your away message, hit OK, and the 3DText or Marquee screensaver will launch with the away message set as the text. Handy! As you can see from the prompt, you can also type in @ to launch the screensaver's settings, or ! to disable it entirely. To set up ssController, download the zip file below, which contains the VB script and a ReadMe file with suggested instructions to set things up.

Download ssController.zip

Note: When I first ran the script, I got an error message about a missing registry key, because I hadn't used either of these screensavers on this PC before. To fix that, right-click on your desktop, choose Properties, and in the Screensaver tab, choose the 3DText saver. Hit Settings to set up your font size, appearance, and custom text. Once you save those settings, ssController should work without a hitch.



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