My Pictures as Screen Saver.

[Ben B]

Hello,

I am a WinME user but am helping a friend in assorted computer ways.

He wishes to have Screen Saver show his pictures which are located in his My
Documents folder. However in the drop-down for Screen Saver are many items
which he tells me are not his ( except for the standard MS savers).
certainly no My Pictures.

Where must his My Pictures folder be located in order for Win2K to display
it as an option?

Thanks.

 

[John John]

Your friend could just copy the images he wants to use to
C:\WINNT\Web\Wallpaper. I don't think moving the My Pictures folder is
a good idea. Also, some third party picture viewers, like ACDSee for
example, have a built in option to set pictures to wallpaper.

John

 

[Ben B]

Hello John,

Thanks for responding. If I understand you correctly my friend should place,
not the whole folder (My Pictures), in the C:\WINNT\WEB\Wallpaper folder,
but those pictures he wishes to display as a slide show when Screen Saver
kicks in.

In WinME this is achieved by having pictures in the C:\My Documents\ My
Pictures folder. The drop-down selection in Screen Saver list for display
includes the My Pictures folder and when Screen Saver kicks in those
pictures appear one by one on a black background screen.

So when you refer to Wallpaper I wonder are we speaking of the same thing?

Ben.

 

[John John]

I'm sorry Ben, I misread your first post so ignore my first reply, my
brain was only half in gear! Wallpaper and screen savers are not the
same thing. The "My Pictures Screensaver" you asked about was
introduced with Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) architecture in Windows
ME and is also used in XP, but is not natively available in Windows
2000. Your friend will have to use a third party screen saver tool to
accomplish this.

John

 

[Ben B]

Hello John,

Thanks for the response.

After much head-scratching I had got there. He had told me that Photo
Express was not something of his but I, not knowing of the skip from WinME
to WinXP in terms of WIA architecture, plowed-on in ignorance, and found it
(PE) on his system.

It was relatively easy from then on, though I, having never used PE, had to
take some 'difficult' lessons.

All is well, and thanks, John, for the elucidation of MS's gymnastics! .

Ben.

 

[John John]

You're welcome, glad you got it working.

John

Hello John,

Thanks for the response.

After much head-scratching I had got there. He had told me that Photo
Express was not something of his but I, not knowing of the skip from WinME
to WinXP in terms of WIA architecture, plowed-on in ignorance, and found it
(PE) on his system.

It was relatively easy from then on, though I, having never used PE, had to
take some 'difficult' lessons.

All is well, and thanks, John, for the elucidation of MS's gymnastics! .

Ben.