Quick overview:
In addition to ScanDisk, regular hard disk maintenance also includes defragmentation in particular. As the program integrated in Windows 9x/Me restarts itself with every slightest change or access to the hard disk, it is not advisable to have a screen saver switched on. It is inconvenient if the screen saver is switched off before defragmentation and switched on again afterwards. In the Windows registry however, there is a key that can be used to deactivate the screen saver only for the duration of the program:
Deactivate screensaver
1. Click one after the other on Start > Execute and type in the command line regedit on. A program appears that is easy to use thanks to the handling of Windows Explorer.
2. Now navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Defrag\Settings and click with the right mouse button in the right-hand pane. Now select New > Character string and give it the name DisableScreenSaver.
3. Now double-click on the value you have created and enter the following in the line that appears Yes inside. When you restart Windows, the screen saver no longer prevents smooth defragmentation.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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