I want to be able to manually activate my screensaver.  I want
something far more elegant than, "create a shortcut to your
screensaver and then assign a hotkey."  I have no interest in this.  I
have no icons on my desktop besides the recycle bin.  I want to keep
it that way.  I am also aware of the ability to hide the icon from
view - like i said i want something more elegant.

I'm looking for a shortcut that activates the screensaver in the same
way the system activates it when the allotted time has expired.  There
are hotkeys for logging off and other things, so I feel there should
be some way to activate the screensaver in a similar manner.

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 27 Mar 2006 15:51 PST

curiousderek...

I'm not sure I understand. You said:

"I want something far more elegant than, 'create a shortcut
 to your screensaver and then assign a hotkey.'"

What could be simpler? You go on to say that you don't want
the shortcut on your desktop, but the fact is, you can place
the shortcut anywhere you like - anywhere on your entire Start
Menu - and the keyboard shortcut will still work. It need not
be on your desktop at all.

Let me know if this answers your question...

sublime1-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by efn-ga on 27 Mar 2006 18:40 PST

I could tell you how to make it so moving the mouse pointer to a
corner of the display would turn on the screen saver.  Would that be a
satisfactory answer?

If you read the question, they are asking how to activate the screen
saver without any action on the part of the user, but not by waiting
for the timer to kick in.  I guess the best answer would be to find a
computer than can telepathically read your mind and know when you want
the screen saver to activate.