How to create screensaver shortcuts in Vista

Shortcuts in Windows are good,they save time and also are cool.Just think instead of clicking many times,you can accomplish specific tasks in a single click or a single hot key,wouldn’t that increase productivity?

Let us take a look at how to make a shortcut to launch any screensaver in Vista.In Windows,screensavers are having the extension .scr.These files are located in Windows\system32 folder.

If you want a quick look at what kind of .scr files are there,navigate to command prompt ( Start > run > cmd) and type cd /windows/system32.
Once in the system folder,list the scr files with dir *.scr

Suppose,I want to make a shortcut to launch the cool Aurora screensaver directly from my desktop.To do this,I create a shortcut that simply points to that particular .scr file.

To make a new shortcut,right click on desktop (that’s where I want the shortcut) and select New > Shortcut.

The path should be
%systemroot%\system32\Aurora.scr /s

Name the shortcut and it will show up on the desktop.

To see if it is working,simply double click on it and screensaver will launch.

All done.