What is a Screen Saver? What is a Screen Saver? Axialis Professional Screen Saver Producer is a powerful tool designed to create personal computer display when no user activity has been sensed for a certain time. The original purpose of a screen saver was to prevent burn-in (the burning of an image into the phosphor inside the cathode ray tube after hours of the same image being displayed). In fact, today's CRT/LCD display technology makes burn-in unlikely except under extreme conditions. The perfect screensaver is the black screen... a bit boring, huh? Many people get screen savers so that something interesting is on the screen when they make a pause. Screensavers are also a good way to promote a company or a product. screen savers that you can select. If you purchase your computer with the operating system already installed, a screen saver may have been selected for Of course, the best way is to create your own and express your talent... A perfect screensaver must have the following characteristics: A dark background or scene - This is to save power consumed by the display. Moving objects or scene - This is to avoid pixel burning. Fixed objects must be dark. Slow motion - The scene must be appeasing. Silent - If you add sounds, use low-level ones and/or cool music. Sensitive - It must stop on any user action (mouse move, click, keyboard hit...). What is a Sprite based screensaver? A sprite is an animated or fixed object which moves or is static on screen. As the goal of a screensaver is to save screen pixels, it is better to use moving static, be animated (a spinning ball for example, composed of several images), bounce on the edge of the screen, collide with other sprites and more... The Sprite based screensaver is the most commonly used. What is a Flash based screensaver? These techniques are rapidly changing the way we play, work, or just browse online. What are vector graphics? Vector graphics, which manipulate coordinates and mathematical formulas rather than pixel-by-pixel images, produce graphics files that are one-tenth the size of bitmaps. Additionally, SWF can deliver animation, rich colors, sound, and interaction. To view a Flash animation, the user must What is a slideshow based screensaver? A slideshow is a sequence of full screen images, each one loading the next. Each period of time. When this period is over, the next slide is displayed using a possible transition effect (cut, roll, fade...). A background music can be added as well as a startup video sequence. This kind of screensaver is great to display your vacation photos or promote a company slogan for example. What is a Video based screensaver? A video screensaver permits displaying a list of video clips full screen in sequence. This kind of screensaver is less used but could be useful to display a company advertisement clip for example. First of all, a screensaver is a program. It is in fact an executable file which modes: Windows Explorer, it will display full screen. adjusting various settings. the screensaver displays in small size in the Windows Display Properties dialog box (see below). SCR files can be located anywhere on your hard disks but we recommend you to screensaver). If an install procedure is provided with the screensaver, just install it launching the procedure. When a screensaver is distributed as a simple SCR file, You have to follow this procedure to install it on a computer: version: 3. Select your (it should appear in this list if you copied it in the correct folder). The How to uninstall a screensaver? If an uninstall procedure is provided with the screensaver, just uninstall it launching the procedure. When a screensaver is distributed as a simple SCR file, you have to locate the SCR file and delete it. You can also choose another Top of Page Related Topics make cursors Send us feedback about the site. Microsoft, Windows, Windows XP, Windows Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Adobe, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator are registered trademarks of Adobe System Incorporated Apple, AppStore, Ipod, iPhone, iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc
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