How to use Vista screen Saver in Windows XP
Are you bored with the traditional built-in screen saver of Windows XP and you want to have the same stylish looking Vista screen saver in your XP box. Yes now you can use the Vista screen saver in to bring life to your XP desktop.The most popular Vista screen savers are Bubbles, Aurora, Mystify and Ribbons. So here I have provided these 4 screen savers for Vista. Just take a look of the Bubbles and Aurora screen saver.
In order to install these screen savers in your Windows XP, you will have to download the patched screen savers from the links at the bottom of the post:
Once you download the files, unzip them and in each unzipped folder you will find the individual screen saver and a text file. The catch here is that this screen savers can not be configured from the screen
saver configuration option. So the included text file defines the required configuration option to customize the screen savers from registry. (If you are not sure how to use registry then do not touch the text files). Once you unzip the screen saver files, copy the individual screen savers to the C:\Windows\System32 folder in your computer. Goshh..this is that easy.
To activate the screen saver, right click on a blank area your desktop and click on properties. Now go to screen saver tab and the newly added savers are there in the list. Select the one you want to activate and click on Apply OK. Thats all ….After the set inactivity time
ur new Bubble screen saver pops up and you say thanks to the guy who showed you the trick.
Here are the download links again:
Bubbles Aurora Mystify Ribbons
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Comment by USC Trojan Fan on 8 December 2007:
Thanks, that’s about the only thing I would like to use from Vista at the moment
Comment by Sam on 13 December 2007:
The bubbles are cool, but Aurora seems a bit boring, doesn’t it?
Comment by Bulletin News on 19 December 2007:
Exciting write up discussing use Vista screen Saver in Windows XP | Techie Zone! Always enjoy your interesting posts!
Comment by Ajay M on 22 December 2007:
Thanks Bulletin.
Comment by Anna on 30 December 2007:
How do I make the picture transparent so I can see my wallpaper?
Comment by Marc on 7 January 2008:
Thanks, at last a use for Vista, cool XP screensavers!
Comment by Gaming Joysticks on 18 January 2008:
Thats pretty sweet, thanks for sharing.
Comment by jerry on 24 March 2008:
I find a bubbles screensaver exactly like vista bubbles but have power views than it.
flowBubbles described special for xp and win2000 and win98.
1, You can place your photos into bubbles.
2, You can use your photos as screensaver background image instead of the static desktop image.
3, It has charming sound when bubbles crash each other
for detail, go to this link…
http://www.pblsoft.com/flowBubbles
Comment by Amy on 17 May 2008:
When I use the bubbles screensaver, the bubbles appear on a white background instead of my desktop and i tried to change the settings using the registry, but it didn’t change the previous settings. Help anyone?
Comment by Ajay M on 19 May 2008:
Plz give more specs of the PC and frm where did you download the screen saver?
Comment by Bluetooth Dongle on 29 May 2008:
To be honest I am truly bored by the screensaver of XP and for a change and good flash looks your post compelled me to change my screensaver and feel like I am using Vista. Thanks a tonne
Regards,
Selena.
Comment by Marc Klein on 31 May 2008:
It’s quite an exciting view. At last it is possible to get rid of these traditional built-in screen savers .Screen savers of Vista looks out to be quite cool and provides 3d effect
Comment by Michael on 31 May 2008:
Definitely a coo looking screensaver you have pictured. Good article and will definitely be using this to port over some screensavers on my laptop.
Comment by Natasha on 4 June 2008:
Bored of screensaver
Comment by Jennifer on 5 June 2008:
Wow! Its beautiful, nice screensaver. It look like 3D picture. Amazing!
Comment by PC Repair Birmingham on 11 June 2008:
loveeeee bubbles hehe
well done. added to fav’s
Comment by real estate agents on 13 June 2008:
Does it work in windows xp?? I dont use windows vista so I am asking it, the screen saver is looking nice.
Comment by Ajay M on 13 June 2008:
@ Real did you read the post or commented in the post just for the sake of commenting?
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Comment by dj on 1 September 2008:
I love the bubbles screen saver. I’d like to know where I can get the background in the bubbles preview above. I didn’t notice that one in Vista.
Thanks!
Comment by KeithY on 6 November 2008:
ran bubles.scr on different xp computers. Those with 256m video memory show the desktop background, those with 64m show only black background. Did not even touch the register. So memory make the difference and seems no setting change will help.
Comment by Ajay M on 8 November 2008:
Thanks for the nice information. I never tested it on a machine with 64MB graphics memory.
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