December 10th, 2010 Sherill
www.downloadready.com
When you are bored with your screensavers and you want a complete change, you can search for free screensavers online. Maybe you want something that will brighten up your PC for Christmas, or maybe you want to dream of faraway places.
If it is nearing Christmas, maybe you can put a dancing Santa Claus or some good Christmas scenes that are great to watch. When spring is in the air, you can display a spring selection of pictures. Or you could get romantic and look for a Valentines screensaver. In the autumn, scare your audience with some pumpkins and Halloween images too.
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November 10th, 2010 Sherill
www.sharewareconnnection.com
Aside from saving the screen from discoloration and for entertainment purposes, these screensavers can also be used for advertisement. Some companies have developed their own themed screensavers and placed their name on a black screen scrolling up and down.
Another use of screensavers is for security – this is maybe its most important use. When you choose a screensaver, you also have the option to set your own password. What happens is that when your computer exits, the screensaver will actually run, and then before you go back to the desktop you have to supply the previously set password. Many people are now using this option to prevent others from invading their privacy.
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October 10th, 2010 Ceasar
Fans of Feyruna have something to rave about these days. The free Feyruna: A Fairy Forest screensaver is a casual game created by Jochen Kaercher Gamedesign, the creator of premium games for casual players. This is a sweet and adorable fairy soars across a beautiful fantasy landscape. Feyruna, uses dazzling spells to defend herself against evil goblins and blazing firebirds.
Aside from that, the free Feyruna includes the option to turn on atmospheric music and sound effects and as the viewers listen to the soothing audio, they treated to smoothly animated scenes featuring the otherworldly artwork of Feyruna: Fairy Forest. This new screen saver will bring fantasy world to life.
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September 10th, 2010 Ceasar
In the amazingly competitive world of aquarium screen savers, an old timer wont budge. SereneScreen’s Marine Aquarium is the only shareware screen saver to be included in various Top 10 screen savers list.
Priced at a hefty $20, it’s also a one of a kind screen saver with many details and assortment that it may very well turn your Mac into a an aquarium for many years.
The screen saver features a lot of choices like downloadable fish species. If you like to take a peak at how real it will be, just press “w” on yor keyboard and slowly see your fish swimming around.
I have got to say that this is worth downloading even if i am convinced that there’s no chance that i will pay $20 for a screen saver.
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July 10th, 2010 Ceasar
Enjoy your own pictures as your screensaver! This is so cool and so easy to do. You just create a slideshow of your pictures and there your own screensaver goes. Windows XP support this kind of activity. All photos stored in your ‘My Pictures’ folder will be used and displayed randomly one after another in a slideshow.
To configure this personalized screensaver, follow the steps below:
- Store all you photos in ‘My Pictures’ folder.
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Right-click on your desktop and select ‘Properties’ from the menu.
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Select the ‘Screensaver’ tab from the dialog box.
- Click on the list of screensaver and choose ‘My Pictures Slideshow’.
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Click ‘OK’.
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June 10th, 2010 Sherill
softwarespread.com
A screensaver is a simple program that appears whenever you leave the mouse or keyboard unattended.
These screensavers were originally designed to protect the computer monitor from phosphor burn-ins. The phosphors that are used to make the pixels in the display would glow at a constant rate. If they are left for a certain period of time, they would actually discolor the glass surface of your monitor.
Today, screensavers are used for entertainment. Most people would use screensavers just for the fun of watching them. Some examples of these screensavers are natural environments like animated waterfalls or fishes, favorite actor/actress, cars, etc.
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October 24th, 2009 Sherill
www.geocities.jp
So if your system administrator has disabled the use of your screensavers, here are some steps that you can take to regain back control over them:
1. Click Start and then the option Run…
2. Type “gpedit.msc” and then press Enter.
3. A window with a tree on its left will open. The User Configuration node has to be expanded. After that expand the Control Panel and click Display.
4. Then, look at the policies to the right in the list. Make sure that these policies from Hide Screen Saver Tab to Screen Saver Timeout have their state set to Not Configured.
5. Now close the window of Group Policy.
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September 22nd, 2009 Sherill
www.mistywindow.com
Windows 2000 and Windows XP are improved versions of Windows 95/98. It introduced a lot of new features that are needed specifically for their administration. One of them was controlling/disabling screensavers.
If you found out that your office computer has a grayed out screensaver, or even worse, the Screensaver tab itself is missing from the Display properties, then this means that the person who configured your PC or your system administrator have disabled your use of screensavers. This is especially controlled in corporations to prevent their employees from being distracted with these fun screensavers, or downloading these pages from the internet.
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August 13th, 2009 Avatar
From the site comes some of the best sci-fi scenery from space; galaxies and planets you’ve never seen all in the convenience of your desktop. See galaxies and nebula as you coast around the universe, watch stars and planets whiz by in the beauty of the most realistic screensavers from outer space. No need to get on a rocket, just sit back and watch as the wonders of the universe are displayed right before your very eyes. See the sun and planets like never before as stunning graphics filled with details flash and change at set intervals. You even have the option of having an mp3 file playing in the background as a bonus.
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February 9th, 2009 Sherill
Did you know that using a screensaver not only helps keep your monitor last longer, it also helps save you power?
The monitor and displays are the biggest consumers of power in your PC, yes, even bigger than a normal central processing unit (now if your CPU is super buffed up, like one for gaming with fancy shmancy attachments, it might be another mater entirely) so it simply makes sense that when your monitor temporarily turns itself off through the screensaver, you save power.
When doing long tasks like scanning for viruses and spyware and malware, or defragging your disk, converting or rendering videos or photos, downloading files or copying large files, burning a CD or DVD – more or less tasks that render your PC slower – always have a screen saver kick in after a couple of minutes so that you can save up on power.
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