Quick overview:
In addition to ScanDisk, regular hard disk maintenance also includes defragmentation in particular. As the program integrated in Windows 9x/Me restarts with every slightest change or access to the hard disk, it is not advisable to have a screen saver switched on. It becomes cumbersome if the screen saver is switched off before defragmentation and then 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 on Start > Run and type regedit in the command line. 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 right-click in the right pane. Now select New > String and give it the name DisableScreenSaver.
3. Now double-click on your self-created value and enter Yes in the line that appears. If you now restart Windows, the screen saver will no longer prevent 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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