Looking for old screensaver

[Arachnyd]

I think it was a Win98 screensaver, but I'm hoping to find the screensaver
that allowed a "glass marble" or hurricane swirl over your desktop. I
haven't been able to find it through regular searches on the internet. Does
anyone know where I can find that file?

 

[thanatoid]

Re: Looking for old screensaver

=?Utf-8?B?QXJhY2hueWQ=?= <Arachnyd@discussions.microsoft.com>
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news:6119B8A7-26E7-4618-8DD9-DB009C6AD585@microsoft.com:

> I think it was a Win98 screensaver, but I'm hoping to find
> the screensaver that allowed a "glass marble" or hurricane
> swirl over your desktop. I haven't been able to find it
> through regular searches on the internet. Does anyone know
> where I can find that file?
>

Might find it at places like:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/

or by Googling for "Windows 3.1 screensaver" (or 95 98). There
are many old shareware sites that have these things, and also
major repositories like garbo.

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[Roger Fink]

Re: Looking for old screensaver

That screensaver is called "Science" (file: science.scr). Microsoft.com
shows it in Win98_63.cab, but I'm not sure if that is version FE or SE. It
worked nicer in the days of slower processors like PII, but is still a great
piece of work, IMO.

Arachnyd wrote:
> I think it was a Win98 screensaver, but I'm hoping to find the
> screensaver that allowed a "glass marble" or hurricane swirl over
> your desktop. I haven't been able to find it through regular
> searches on the internet. Does anyone know where I can find that
> file?

 

[Roger Fink]

Re: Looking for old screensaver

_63.cab = FE
_69.cab = SE

Roger Fink wrote:
> That screensaver is called "Science" (file: science.scr).
> Microsoft.com shows it in Win98_63.cab, but I'm not sure if that is
> version FE or SE. It worked nicer in the days of slower processors
> like PII, but is still a great piece of work, IMO.
>
> Arachnyd wrote:
>> I think it was a Win98 screensaver, but I'm hoping to find the
>> screensaver that allowed a "glass marble" or hurricane swirl over
>> your desktop. I haven't been able to find it through regular
>> searches on the internet. Does anyone know where I can find that
>> file?

 

[PCR]

Re: Looking for old screensaver

Roger Fink wrote:
| _63.cab = FE
| _69.cab = SE
|
| Roger Fink wrote:
|> That screensaver is called "Science" (file: science.scr).
|> Microsoft.com shows it in Win98_63.cab, but I'm not sure if that is
|> version FE or SE. It worked nicer in the days of slower processors
|> like PII, but is still a great piece of work, IMO.

I confirm, in 98SE, it is in...

Cabinet WIN98_69.CAB
04-23-1999 10:22:00p A--- 101,888 science.scr

Wow! That's a weird one! It is one of the Desktop Themes...

To install Desktop Themes, if they are not already in the Control Panel
or in the START menu...

1. START, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup
tab.
2. Check "Desktop Themes"; click "Details"; check the themes you want;
"OK" twice.
3. Perhaps, re-boot.

Some themes require "high color". To get "high color"...

1. Right click the Desktop & select Properties
2. Click the "Settings" tab
3. Use the "Colors" dropdown menu to select "high color"
4. Be prepared. It may ask your permission to restart the computer.

|> Arachnyd wrote:
|>> I think it was a Win98 screensaver, but I'm hoping to find the
|>> screensaver that allowed a "glass marble" or hurricane swirl over
|>> your desktop. I haven't been able to find it through regular
|>> searches on the internet. Does anyone know where I can find that
|>> file?

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