I would rather use a paper calender. Next week the WIn XP sreen saver will be obsolete. The electric power was out at my home for 14 hours, 1 1/2 weeks ago. No big deal, phone worked, but all my phone numbers are stored on the computer!! Not all new things are good! Eric Sam Walters wrote: > In fact, you don't need any screen saver software in Windows XP to run a > slideshow as your screen saver. I didn't know this because I don't > waste the memory and energy that a screensaver uses, rather just setting > the screen to go blank. But if you want one, go to the Control Panel, > to Display, to Screen Saver, one of the options among built in screen > savers is "My Pictures Slideshow." There you can choose the folder > where the pictures you want to use are located (means you could vary it > from time to time easily), set the frequency of change, size of > pictures, etc., and "Apply." > > I just set it up on mine and it worked just fine. Now I will go > disable it. > > Just checked my laptop and setup the same feature for Windows ME. Do it > with the same commands. All the same options exist so you could put the > pictures in the My Pictures folder or create a folder for vanagon > pictures, etc. and select it and be good to go. > > Sam > > > -- > Sam Walters > Baltimore, MD > > 89 Syncro GL > 85 Westy Weekender > > > All incoming and outgoing email scanned by > automatically updated copy of Norton AntiVirus. > > |
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