Windows Vista™ Inside Out

Choosing a Screen Saver

Screen savers don’t save screens (in long-gone days when screens were invariably CRTs and in many offices displayed the same application at all hours of the working day, having an image move about during idle times probably did extend the service life of some displays), and they certainly don’t save energy. But they’re fun to watch. Windows Vista includes a few new ones and eliminates some that were part of Windows XP. To see the current offerings, right-click the desktop, choose Personalize from the shortcut menu, and then click Screen Saver.

Note

If you use a multi-monitor setup, the screen savers supplied with Windows Vista, unfortunately, "save" only the primary screen. The other(s) go blank when the screen saver goes ...