Create Shortcut Icon to Disable / Enable the Screensaver

It happens sometime that we are watching some movie or burning a DVD or doing anything which doesn’t involve the use of mouse. And then screensaver comes on and create an annoyance and irritation for the user to jiggle the mouse every certain number of minutes to make sure it won’t happen again. So we would like to create a solution to disable the screensaver in a real quick way to avoid this irritation.

There is a small utility called Flipss which can be used to easily enable or disable the screensaver via a command line argument. We can download Flipss from the web. It is a utility which lets you, stop the screen saver, if it’s running when the program switches the state to 'off', and manually start the screen saver.

But we can manually create shortcuts for each task by right-clicking on the desktop and choose New and then Shortcut from the menu and it will ask the path of the shortcut. So we will provide the full path where we installed the flipss.exe file. For example, if we have saved the Flipss in C:MySoftwares, and we want to create a shortcut to turn the screensaver on we’ll enter

C:MySoftwaresflipss.exe /on

The shortcut which is created will enable the screensaver on opening and when we try to create the shortcut for disabling the screensaver we’ll enter

C:MySoftwaresflipss.exe off

In the location bar of the creating shortcut window and the shortcut created will disable or turn off the screensaver on opening.

We can give new icon images to these shortcuts by opening their properties and select Change Icon tab and browse from the system. So our shortcuts to enable or disable the screensaver are created and we can save them in Quick Launch to use them in ease when required.