Frre fireplace or other Xmas screensaver?

[LeMarchand]

Has anyone got a link to a decent free screensaver (or something similar) that I can use in one of my schools? The panel in the reception area is currently semi-obscured by a Christmas tree and turned off, but I thought it would be nice to have something running on it.

[DaveP]

I posted this YouTube video in another thread last week:



[3 hours]

Or how about this play list of 41 videos on the same YouTube page:

Link: Virtual Fireplace

[LeMarchand]

Anyone know how to force YouTube to open in Fullscreen automatically?

[stevenewman]

This place has proven popular in the past (might just be the final year of opening though, a lot of the stock is past its sell be date)

It's Chrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssstttttttmm mmmmmaaaaaasssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!

[DaveP]

Anyone know how to force YouTube to open in Fullscreen automatically?

The link for the first video can be cut down to this:

Link: http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/eyU3bRy2x44

[It fills most but not all of the screen. I will keep looking]

[LeMarchand]

The link for the first video can be cut down to this:

Link: http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/eyU3bRy2x44

[It fills most but not all of the screen. I will keep looking]

Cheers! I now have a cunning plan...

[Valyyn]

As a treat for our kids, I've deployed this Christmas screensaver to them for December:
Kelly Software - Snow Screen Saver - the homepage for the snow screensaver

I used GPP to copy that .scr file to C:\Windows\kssnow.scr
Then I set some reg keys via GPP to set the picture to a photo of our school I photoshopped to make snowy
Then set the screensaver to C:\Windows\kssnow.scr with a 5min timeout via GPO.

If you want the reg key to be able to change the picture:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ksSnow]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ksSnow\Settings]
"snowCount"="5000"
"scene"="custom"
"sceneimg"="\\\\servername\\netlogon\\Wallpapers\\ Christmas.bmp"

Just make sure it's a .bmp file in the right resolution (or as near as - it will stretch it )

Just to show off, here's our normal wallpapers:

and here's the Christmas one I used for the screensaver background:

[DaveP]

As a treat for our kids, I've deployed this Christmas screensaver to them for December...

What are client? [XP or Windows 7]

[Valyyn]

The students are all on Windows 7, but this does also work on the admin team's XP machines, if that helps!

[DaveP]

The students are all on Windows 7, but this does also work on the admin team's XP machines, if that helps!

No it was the Windows 7 clients I was looking to clarify. I am sure that I read on the forum someone was having problems deploying a screensaver to Windows 7 stations.

[LeMarchand]

That's even more cunning than my plan! Will see if I can get that working.

[dany2010]

Loving the kelly software screen saver.