I do have a dim recollection of reading somewhere about the locations where Windows looks for screensavers, but that was long ago and I do not remember the details. Both my computers run Windows 10, Version 21H1, build 19043.1288 so I can't comment on older versions. I can well believe the preferred location(s) for *.scr files might have changed with different versions of Windows. All the rest were in \Windows\System32\, most of them with names beginning with "SS" but two or three with other names, for instance "ribbons.scr". In the \Windows\ folder I found one *.scr file - "Avast.scr" left there as the last vestige of Avast which I uninstalled years ago. All the screen savers I found were part of my original Windows installation, not selected or installed by me, excepting only 3D Pipes.scr (yes, there is a space in that file name) which I had downloaded from and put in the \Windows\System32\ folder (after the original 3D Pipes version, that did come with my original Windows setup, had mysteriously disappeared). I just went through the \Windows\ and \Windows\System32\ folders on my desktop computer. OTOH I found they don't work if installed in the Downloads folder.[' There are evidently several locations in which Windows can find screensaver files - at least, the Windows folder and the System32 folder below it. Any input, such as moving the mouse or pressing any key, resets the sleep timer counter (and the screensaver timer) to zero. That way I can stop the computer from going to sleep, if I want to continue working without having to log in again.
So if I have the computer set to go to sleep after one hour of no input activity, I set the screen saver to start in 55 minutes. FWIW I use the screen saver as warning that the system is about to go to sleep. There are of course some other settings that could prevent a screen saver from operating - such as turning off the display. If you are like me you will keep backup copies of each one, but on a USB flash drive, not on your system - and remove the flash drive before installing the screensaver file. Before installing each file, make sure there are no copies of it anywhere else in your system.
So put the screensaver file (each one you want to use) into the \System32\ folder, then right-click on it and choose "Install". I found also that having an extra copy of the file anywhere else in the system can cause it not to work. All open apps are terminated if the Force application termination option was selected.I think the screensaver files have to be in the "system" folder (usually \Windows\System32\) itself and not in any subfolder.
The screen saver setting is applied and will kick in after the idle timeout and offers you the 30-second countdown timer with an option to cancel the logoff process.
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To make the logoff screen saver work for all accounts, add each user (or add the Users group) to the list, and give them Full Control permissions.
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