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    Software to create screensavers

    After reading another topic on here about setting screen savers through GPO it has given me ideas.

    DOes anyone use or know of any Screen Saver Software that is FREE that i can use to create simple screen savers?

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    Re: Software to create screensavers

    i would like to know aswel please?

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    me too! anyone? I wanna display my school logo on all the PCs

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    What do you want it to do? Making a school logo bounce around the screen like winlogon.scr does is easy.
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    I have used this ... its quite good and even works on Vista

    Animated Screensaver Maker - DesktopPaints.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle View Post
    DOes anyone use or know of any Screen Saver Software that is FREE that i can use to create simple screen savers?
    I think you can use Flash to compile screensavers, can't you? If you already have a license for Flash then that's effectively free.

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    Irfanview is perfect (and free) if all you want is an image slideshow.

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    well I was using Xara Screensaver Maker and also 2D 3D Screensaver Maker but they are not free options, I will try Galway's choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by powdarrmonkey View Post
    What do you want it to do? Making a school logo bounce around the screen like winlogon.scr does is easy.
    Sounds good, what software are you using for that ?

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    You can make anything a screen saver like an exe or something. You just have to rename the extension to .scr I think. Something along those lines anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by powdarrmonkey View Post
    What do you want it to do? Making a school logo bounce around the screen like winlogon.scr does is easy.
    Dont suppose you care to elaborate on this?

    Ive been tasked with "making the schhol logo bounce around the screen" in a screensaver for free and would like to know an easy way of doing it

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    Give this a try:

    Resource Tuner: Resource Editor for Windows EXE and DLL. View, Edit, Extract, and Replace Strings, Bitmaps, and Icon Resources.

    30 day trial, but it lets you open up the winlogon.scr file and replace the Windows logo with your own
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    You can load your own textures into the preset screensavers.

    Choose Display properties > Screen saver > 3D Flying objects > Settings > Style > textured flag > Texture. Then load the image of your school logo as a bitmap.

    Not sure how you roll this out to all of the other pc's though.

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    Just got this from one of their free screen savers!
    Attached Images Attached Images

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    I got the same on the main program executable! Anyone else get anything?

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