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Screen Saver?

AdventAdvent Registered User regular
edited May 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Can anyone suggest a could place to find more interesting screen savers than the ones provided with Windows?

I tried a forum search, it turned up some information about trojans and attempting to refresh a monitor screen without using them. : \

Thanks for any help!

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  • mrcheesypantsmrcheesypants Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Browse sourceforge for them. That way you'll be able to see the source code for the screen savers.

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  • TreelootTreeloot Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Advent wrote: »
    Can anyone suggest a could place to find more interesting screen savers than the ones provided with Windows?

    I tried a forum search, it turned up some information about trojans and attempting to refresh a monitor screen without using them. : \

    Thanks for any help!

    Just a heads up, most monitors these days will be fine if you don't use a screen saver.

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  • ZellZell Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Yes, but the temporary effects of leaving a LCD on for too long are pretty annoying, even if they aren't damaging to the monitor.

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  • Sk1nnyManSk1nnyMan Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    If your worried about your LCD blowing up it may be worth setting the Windows power settings so that it turns the monitor off (or onto standby) after a certain amount of time.

    In Windows XP goto Start>Control Panel>Power Options and tweak the settings so that the monitor gets turned off.

    For screen savers Google is your Friend, however you cannot beat the classic Matrix numbers screensaver, every other websites do them but this one is the one I use.

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  • Seattle ThreadSeattle Thread Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    These ones are really cool.

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Any decent Flying Toaster screen savers for XP, yet? The one included in Ubuntu is pretty so-so.

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  • CycophantCycophant Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Moppi Flower Saver, made by these guys, is one of the neatest looking savers I've seen in a while. It was good enough for me to start using a screensaver again, after having never used one for years.

    What's espescially great is with a few quick steps, you can get it to sync to music. The effect is pretty cool once you've got it tweaked right - great for something interesting to watch while listening to music.

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  • Jimmy KingJimmy King Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    If you can find them anywhere the old After Dark screensavers were great. The "Totally Twisted" set was hilarious.

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