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Cannot Remove Unilnstalled Screen Savers from Display List

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Brian1951, 2009/03/13.

  1. 2009/03/13
    Brian1951

    Brian1951 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I removed some themes with screensavers buy Right Click on Desktop > Properties > Delete Theme. The Screen Save and other Theme elements were deleted, but the Screen Saver listing still remains in the drop down menu in the screen saver tap.

    How do I remove these non-existent Screen Saver listings?
     
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    PeteC

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    Brian1951

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    The thing is that the .theme file and .scr files were deleted. When Display Properties is brought up and the Screen Saver Tab is clicked and then the drop down Screen Saver selection menu is clicked the deleted .scr still show in the list. Accidentally clicking one of these in the list produces unexpected results.
     
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    PeteC

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    Screensaver files are Protected System files so if you delete them they will return - not quite your scenario I know and maybe something is corrupted. However see if this is of help .....

    Delete Unwanted Screen Savers Loaded with XP
     

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