Windows Screensavers

[Sholos]

Like me, some of you may remember the days when screensavers were fun. Like the After Dark suites. What were some of your favorite screensavers from yonder days? Mine was Falling Marbles.

Also, does anyone know if you can get any other screensavers for Windows 7?

[factotum]

You can get loads of them...just do a search.

As for my favourite, I forget its name, but it was a full 3D one that came out in the early days of 3D cards on computers...late 90s. You were kind of swooping around inside these 3D spaces, following loads of particles that were being kicked out of one drifting thing and being attracted by another.

[Pika...]

I like programs which let you turn clips/video into screensavers.

I also enjoy programs for rotating backgrounds. Always fun when I click out of my browser to my desktop.

[Flickerdart]

The maze one was far and away the best.

[H Birchgrove]

I like one of those I have on my IBM Aptiva with Windows 95 Plus; it's with a mansion that looks like something out of the Addams Family films or TV-series.

[Ceric]

The maze one was far and away the best.

Oh man, I remember that. Nostalgia. Now I want it >.> I'm going to go look for a download now...

[Dvil]

I was going to say the maze one too. My family didn't like it though. I don't remember the reason, but I'd guess it gave them headaches or something. It was a bit funky that way.

[bluewind95]

You know what was great to do on the maze one? To have the walls and ceilings and floors all being the animated psychedelic colors.

[Tirian]

Everybody is wrong. The maze was sweet, sure. But the greatest screensaver of all time was Johnny Castaway (http://youtu.be/XGxRSIA92Sw).

[TheThan]

Everybody is wrong. The maze was sweet, sure. But the greatest screensaver of all time was Johnny Castaway (http://youtu.be/XGxRSIA92Sw).


I've been trying for a couple of hours to recall the name of that screen saver. Thank you. it really is awesome

[Ravens_cry]

My favourite default one was the star field.
Warp Factor Nine, Helmsmen.
Engage.

[Astrella]

Pipes, definitely pipes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPZb8HoQgH8&feature=related)

[Dr.Epic]

That weird distorted ball that bounced around your desktop making everything look at distorted.

[Ravens_cry]

That weird distorted ball that bounced around your desktop making everything look at distorted.

That's not a screensaver, that's what happens when your computer divides by zero.:smalltongue:

[RS14]

You can get loads of them...just do a search.


All 3rd party Windows screensavers should be assumed to be malware until proven otherwise.

See [1 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4765199.stm)], then read [2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screensaver#Microsoft_Windows)] and consider the implications of .scr being essentially a synonym for .exe.

That said, Electric Sheep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep) is cool, open source, and reputable, so is possibly safe.

[factotum]

All 3rd party Windows screensavers should be assumed to be malware until proven otherwise.

You mean there are people around who download stuff from the Internet without having an up-to-date virus scanner on their machine? :smallconfused:

[RS14]

You mean there are people around who download stuff from the Internet without having an up-to-date virus scanner on their machine? :smallconfused:

Anti-virus is never a justification for running unknown executables. Detecting all new threats is provably impossible. For known threats, detection rates are pretty good, but for new threats they're as low as 20-30% (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/12/21/dwindling_antivirus_protection/).

It's a really terrible virus author that doesn't test his virus against known anti-virus software before releasing. And he can do so until it stops being detected...

Edit: Also, yes, they exist. I was one back when I used Windows (and still am now, I suppose). AV software is resource intensive, of questionable effectiveness, and mostly unnecessary if you block Javascript, disable autorun, and don't execute dubious software.