{"id":3323,"date":"2013-06-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/27\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-screensaver-info-for-logged-on-user\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-screensaver-info-for-logged-on-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-screensaver-info-for-logged-on-user\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Screensaver Info for Logged-on User"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find screensaver information for a user who is currently logged-on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find screensaver information for a currently logged-on user?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use WMI, query the Win32_Desktop class, and select the currently logged-on user.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">In Windows PowerShell 3.0:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-CimInstance win32_desktop | where name -eq (whoami)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">In Windows PowerShell 2.0:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-WmiObject win32_desktop | where { $_.name -eq (whoami) }<span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find screensaver information for a user who is currently logged-on. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find screensaver information for a currently logged-on user? &nbsp;Use WMI, query the Win32_Desktop class, and select the currently logged-on user. In Windows PowerShell 3.0: Get-CimInstance win32_desktop | where name -eq (whoami) In Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find screensaver information for a user who is currently logged-on. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find screensaver information for a currently logged-on user? &nbsp;Use WMI, query the Win32_Desktop class, and select the currently logged-on user. In Windows PowerShell 3.0: Get-CimInstance win32_desktop | where name -eq (whoami) In Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}