Old Screensavers

[Jack]

Hi,
I got 2 pieces of screensavers in the win3.1 era.
I want to revive it on windows XP Pro SP2.
I put them (.scr) in both system32 and windows
dir, but not show up in the ss control panel. I right click the try install,
still no success. What other setup must I do in order to run these as normal
savers?
Thanks
Jack

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I got 2 pieces of screensavers in the win3.1 era.
I want to revive it on windows XP Pro SP2.
I put them (.scr) in both system32 and windows
dir, but not show up in the ss control panel. I right click the try
install, still no success. What other setup must I do in order to run
these as normal savers?

Since these are old 16-bit screen savers, they don't show up in that
list by default. Doubleclick these *.scr files in order to ensure that
they work under WinXP. If this is the case, rename the screen saver
files. If that file is named "Twinkle.scr" for instance, just rename
to "SSTwinkle.scr" (put 'SS' in front of the file names) and they should
appear in the list. Make sure that the screen saver files are located in
the %windir%\System32 folder.