It really shouldn't be so hard re: screen savers

[Chet]

Vista Home Premium.

Been using computers since Atari. MS wants to keep changing inconsequential
things. (e.g. the hour glass to a circle) but I digress.
NO PROBLEM changing the delay time for my screen saver, for years. Now they
must have it in some renamed option. So, please, if you will, fill in the
blanks:

Click on START (oops the windows logo, bottowm left of task bar) > Control
Panel > ? > ? > ? It used to be "display", etc. why change it???

Thanks.

Chet

 

[Guest]

Everything is under Personalisation.

You can change Mouse Pointers to an hourglass under Mouse in the control
panel.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Vista Home Premium.

Been using computers since Atari. MS wants to keep changing
inconsequential things. (e.g. the hour glass to a circle) but I digress.
NO PROBLEM changing the delay time for my screen saver, for years. Now
they must have it in some renamed option. So, please, if you will, fill
in the blanks:

Click on START (oops the windows logo, bottowm left of task bar) >
Control Panel > ? > ? > ?

Right-click any blank spot on the Desktop > Personalize > Screensavers.


It used to be "display", etc. why

change it???

Why expect a newer OS to be the same as the old ones? What would be
the point?


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[Chet]

Thank you both. "." and Bruce.

Bruce, you asked, "Why expect a newer OS to be the same as the old ones?
What would be the point?" I don't expect a newer OS to be the same. I
see no point in writing a new OS if changes are not made, otherwise we'd
still be using DOS. My distaste is for changes that occur that have no
improvement but are just changes for change's sake, e.g. hour glasses to
circles, "display" options to "personalization" options, "directories" to
"folders," etc. I think MS has to generate a lot of bucks. One way to do it
is to introduce new OS's but they aren't so new anymore and really aren't a
significant improvement, e.g. Vista vs. XP! It gives customers a false
sense that there is a lot to be gained by getting new OS's and that isn't
always so. The new terms, icons, etc. are just window dressing and really
don't improve things like other improvements do and only add confusion, e.g.
a long time user like me getting on a listserver to find out how to change
the screen saver setting!!!!

Thanks.

Chet

 

[Malcolm McCaffery]

1. Click Start button -> Control Panel
2. In the top right corner of the Control Panel window there is a white text
box, for searching. Type 'screensaver' in there and it will filter all the
places where you can change screen saver settings.

Do the same with other control panel options, and you'll find it's much
easier to find options in Vista.

Regards,

Malcolm.

 

[+Bob+]

My distaste is for changes that occur that have no
improvement but are just changes for change's sake, e.g. hour glasses to
circles, "display" options to "personalization" options, "directories" to
"folders," etc. I think MS has to generate a lot of bucks. One way to do it
is to introduce new OS's but they aren't so new anymore and really aren't a
significant improvement, e.g. Vista vs. XP! It gives customers a false
sense that there is a lot to be gained by getting new OS's and that isn't
always so. The new terms, icons, etc. are just window dressing and really
don't improve things like other improvements do and only add confusion, e.g.
a long time user like me getting on a listserver to find out how to change
the screen saver setting!!!!

All too common with MS. They rarely improve much of anything, they
just shuffle stuff around. Witness MS Office since v95. Little in the
way of actual improvements people use, even advanced users, just more
obfuscation.

Worse yet, MS has abandoned one of the foundations of Windows program
interfaces - the standardized window. This is a core feature of
windowing interfaces: we were finally relieved of learning a new
interface for every program we installed. Yet, in the last couple
versions of windows, MS has introduced a new interface for nearly
every program they provide and few come anywhere near standard (even
if they have decided on some new standard and just not told us,
they're all different).

 

[measekite Da Monkey]

All too common with MS. They rarely improve much of anything, they
just shuffle stuff around. Witness MS Office since v95. Little in the
way of actual improvements people use, even advanced users, just more
obfuscation.

So Microsoft rarely improves much of anything since Office 95? You really
are a retard. No wonder why you post all day long trying to figure out how
to use Vista. You have no clue. So why are you NOT using Office 95 if the
other versions show no improvement?

Worse yet, MS has abandoned one of the foundations of Windows program
interfaces - the standardized window. This is a core feature of
windowing interfaces: we were finally relieved of learning a new
interface for every program we installed. Yet, in the last couple
versions of windows, MS has introduced a new interface for nearly
every program they provide and few come anywhere near standard (even
if they have decided on some new standard and just not told us,
they're all different).

Maybe you should be watching an old Black and White TV from the 60's. In
your world, nothing improves. Actually you should go back to DOS 6.22