Disable Screen Saver for Remote Sessions Only

I work from home, but I'm also in the office quite often. My work and home machines are both Windows 7 Ultimate.

When I'm in the office I like my computer to go to screen saver fairly quickly and then lock ("On resume, display logon screen").

But when I'm home, I often do something on my home computer for a good length of time, and I don't want the remote session to lock and require a password when I switch back over to it.

I'm looking for a (Group Policy?) setting that can turn off the screen saver only for remote sessions. Is this possible?

From serverfault sliderhouserules

• You might be able to do that with the loopback feature of gpo.

  Loopback processing enables you to apply user specific policies depending on the OU in which the computer object is that the user is logging on to. So first create a OU "Terminalserver" or whatever and move your terminal servers into this OU. Create a GPO "Loopback" or whatever, enable the Loopback setting, and link this GPO to the Terminalserver OU. Then you can create additional GPOs with user configuration settings linked to the Terminalserver OU. These policies will be applied to all users logging on to these workstations. To exclude administrators, use the security group filtering. Do the following: For every GPO, create a global security group named, for example, GPol (*G*lobal *Pol*icy group for GPO ). Make the desired users member of this group. In the security settings for the GPO, remove the "Apply Policy" and "Read policy" right for the default "Authenticated Users", add it for the proper security group instead.

  Richard : If I understand correctly, this would work for disabling the screen saver for all users (remote or on the console) for specific computers? (Rather than a setting that depends on how the user connects: locally or remote.)

  sliderhouserules : This seems a lot more involved than I was hoping for. I don't want to set Group Policy on the domain, just my local (work) machine. Thanks for the feedback though.
  From The Digital Ninja

• You could make shortcuts to enable/disable your screensaver. I know it's not ideal, but this solution can be done in a few seconds instead of banging your head trying to figure out something automated. That said, if someone more knowledgeable than me can find a way to have a login script only run on remote logon/logoff, then you're set :)

  Create a file disable-screensaver.reg with this:

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
  "ScreenSaveActive"="0"
  

  Then create a shortcut to regedit.exe /s disable-screensaver.reg. The enable shortcut is the same but with "ScreenSaveActive"="1" instead of 0.

  sliderhouserules : Thanks, this was what I was going to look at for a permanent workaround if I couldn't find a "pure" solution.
  From Michael Mior