Req: executable screen savers

[ms]

I first asked about this a year ago. It seems hard to find, as the ones I find
are always installs.

Executable (no-install) screen savers for W98, no flash, ActiveX, Java.
1. Autumn scene, falling leaves
2. Winter/Xmas scene, falling snow
3. Tropical fish aquarium, multiple fish, not just one.

Last year someone kindly provided a snow fall executable that was OK, but not
really what I was after.

TIA

Mike Sa

 

[ceg]

I don't understand exactly what it is you're looking for. All screensavers
are actually executable. If you're looking for something in particular, I'd
suggest you ask over in alt.binaries.screen-savers.

 

[ms]

I don't understand exactly what it is you're looking for. All screensavers
are actually executable. If you're looking for something in particular, I'd
suggest you ask over in alt.binaries.screen-savers.

True, but the screensaver executable *.scr file alway seems to be packed inside a
installer.

Last year, I asked on that ng, got no answer. They seemed to be focused on wild
screensavers, compared to what I'm looking for.

Mike Sa

 

[ceg]

True, but the screensaver executable *.scr file alway seems to be packed inside a
installer.

Last year, I asked on that ng, got no answer. They seemed to be focused on wild
screensavers, compared to what I'm looking for.

Mike Sa

Have you tried to extract the *.scr files from the installer packs by using
a ZIP unpacking program...something like Enzip? Once you have the *.scr you
can generally run it with any number of different command line switches.
You can also right-click->install to manually install it. Many can be
renamed from *.scr to *.exe if you want to go that route. If you're into VB
check http://www.planet-source-code.com there used to be some code there.
Last year I picked one up that had the snow effect and changed the
background pics around for my moods.

 

[jo]

Last year someone kindly provided a snow fall executable that was OK, but not
really what I was after.

Was that snow.exe from here:

http://www.monctoncomputerservice.com/revenger_inc/download.html

It ought to work as a screensaver by changing the extension to .scr and
putting it in System folder. But it didn't here; it might for you
though.
It's only about 30kb.

 

[ms]

ms wrote:




Was that snow.exe from here:

http://www.monctoncomputerservice.com/revenger_inc/download.html

It ought to work as a screensaver by changing the extension to .scr and
putting it in System folder. But it didn't here; it might for you
though.
It's only about 30kb.

Thanks, Jo. It runs fine as a executable in W98. The exe is even better for me
than the *.scr. It looks like a very light snow fall against the desktop screen.

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

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Have you tried to extract the *.scr files from the installer packs by using
a ZIP unpacking program...something like Enzip? Once you have the *.scr you
can generally run it with any number of different command line switches.
You can also right-click->install to manually install it. Many can be
renamed from *.scr to *.exe if you want to go that route. If you're into VB
check http://www.planet-source-code.com there used to be some code there.
Last year I picked one up that had the snow effect and changed the
background pics around for my moods.

Thanks, ceg. I'll look into that. Last year, I was still using Earthlink, now with
individual.net, I can't see binary newgroups anyway.

Mike Sa

 

[Tritoneur]

Thanks, Jo. It runs fine as a executable in W98. The exe is even
better for me than the *.scr. It looks like a very light snow fall
against the desktop screen.

Mike Sa

I have it running on WindowsME (shows in task manager), but no snow.
Nothing! :-(

 

[Gimpy]

Was that snow.exe from here:

http://www.monctoncomputerservice.com/revenger_inc/download.html

Thats a nice snow program, but how the heck do you turn it off or get

rid of it later on ??? TIA Gimpy

 

[jo]

Thats a nice snow program, but how the heck do you turn it off

The readme suggests Ctrl-Alt-Del

or get
rid of it later on ???

Delete the folder you unzipped it to?

 

[ms]

Have you tried to extract the *.scr files from the installer packs by using
a ZIP unpacking program...something like Enzip? Once you have the *.scr you
can generally run it with any number of different command line switches.
You can also right-click->install to manually install it. Many can be
renamed from *.scr to *.exe if you want to go that route. If you're into VB
check http://www.planet-source-code.com there used to be some code there.
Last year I picked one up that had the snow effect and changed the
background pics around for my moods.

ceg, I looked at Enzip, seems like IZArc, will see about extracting from an
installer- IIRC it dosen't do that.

Do you have any snow *.scr or *.exe winter scenes on a website I could look at and
maybe download? Every so often, not being able to look at binary newsgroups gets
to be a hassle.

Thanks,

Mike Sa

 

[ceg]

ceg, I looked at Enzip, seems like IZArc, will see about extracting from an
installer- IIRC it dosen't do that.

IIRC, with EnZip, you had to select the file type from the dropdown
box...select EXE rather than the default ZIP extension. That should open
most any EXE type archive. (what used to be termed SEA - self extracting
archive).

Do you have any snow *.scr or *.exe winter scenes on a website I could look at and
maybe download? Every so often, not being able to look at binary newsgroups gets
to be a hassle.

Not at the momet. I've been working on getting another Amazon associate
program going as well as items from one of the major poster/art sites. I
did start making screensavers again recently and will start putting them up
probably sometime after xmas.

 

[jo]

Every so often, not being able to look at binary newsgroups gets
to be a hassle.

Is Teranews still not virtually free? When I got my account it was a few
dollars sign up for life which got all the bin groups with a 50MB a day
cap.
And you can buy Octanews accounts by the MB...

 

[ms]

IIRC, with EnZip, you had to select the file type from the dropdown
box...select EXE rather than the default ZIP extension. That should open
most any EXE type archive. (what used to be termed SEA - self extracting
archive).



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Not at the momet. I've been working on getting another Amazon associate
program going as well as items from one of the major poster/art sites. I
did start making screensavers again recently and will start putting them up
probably sometime after xmas.

Thanks, maybe later.

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

ms wrote:




Is Teranews still not virtually free? When I got my account it was a few
dollars sign up for life which got all the bin groups with a 50MB a day
cap.
And you can buy Octanews accounts by the MB...

One server keeps me busy as it is.

Mike Sa