How to Change Ribbons Screen Saver Settings in Windows Vista?


Ribbons Screen Saver:



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By default Vista does not allows you to change the Ribbons Screen Saver Settings. On doing this you will get the following error:



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However you can change it using Registry Editor .

To accomplish this follow these steps:

1) Open Registry Editor and navigate to the key branch

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current Version \ Screensavers \ Ribbons in the left pane



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2) Right click on the right pane and select New and then DWORD (32-bit) Value option as shown in the above figure

3) Name this DWORD as one of the following options:

• Blur – Can have value 0 or 1. Value 0 enables the fade effect and 1 disables it.

• Numribbons – Can have value between 1 and 100. This determines the number of ribbons to be displayed on the screen.

• RibbonWidth – Can have value between 1000000000 and 1080000000. Sets the width of the ribbons.

4) Let us name the DWORD as Blur



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5) Now double click the Blur DOWRD and select the Decimal dot



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6) Now type 0 to enable the fade effect and 1 to disable it in the Value data textbox as shown in the figure above.

7) Repeat steps 2 to 6 to set other settings shown in the list above.

8) Close Registry Editor