[Nimblor]

Is there a way to make the seti screen saver run when no one is logged in on a windows 95 machine?

I read this from the FOLDING stuff somewhere... and was wondering if I could set it up to work with SETI instead?

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How do I run the screen saver when nobody is logged on?
We encourage having the screen saver running when nobody is logged in in order to get the most useful running time possible. In order to do this you must edit the Windows registry. You can do this by using the program regedit (or also regedt32 in Windows 2000), usually located in the C:\WINDOWS folder. If it is not there, you can find it by using the "Find" utility in the Start menu. It might be necessary to have administrator privileges to do this. If you don't have administrator privileges, try to convince somebody that does to do this
Once you start regedit, expand the HKEY_USERS folder by pressing the plus sign next to it. Then expand the .DEFAULT folder, then the Control Panel folder, then the Desktop folder. Select the Desktop folder, and you should see a list of names and data in the right hand window. Select the ScreenSaveActive name, right click, and select modify. The value should be set to one. This guarantees that the screen saver comes on when nobody is logged in. Next select SCRNSAVE.EXE, and change it to winfah.scr. (It might be necessary to set it to the absolute location, something like C:\windows\winfah.scr - wherever it's located). This selects the Folding@home screen saver as the default screen saver, when nobody is logged in. Finally, select ScreenSaveTimeOut and change it to 60. This makes sure that the screen saver comes on promptly (60 seconds, as a matter of fact) after somebody logs out.
So, to summarize, to run a screen saver when nobody is logged on, update the registry keys:
key value
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ControlPanel\Desktop\ ScreenSaveActive 1
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ControlPanel\Desktop\ SCRNSAVE.EXE winfah.scr
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ControlPanel\Desktop\ ScreenSaveTimeOut 60
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I have a bunch of computers at school that sit on all the time and could be put to work doing something besides burning the login screen into the monitors.

Nimblor

[Burning Phoenix]

I personally have never tried this but what caught my eye was the line where winfah.scr was. That seems to me to be a Folding At Home file so you may have to change it to the file name that the SETI screen saver is called.