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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>Sent: 26 October 2006 12:22
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: [OT] Getting old screen savers to work in XP
>
>
>Does anyone know how to get old screensavers to work in Win 
>XP? With older versions of windows it was sufficient to stick 
>the SCR file in the windows\system or system32 directory, and 
>the screensaver selector would find it and one could select it 
>on the menu. For some reason XP now looks elsewhere for the file names.
>
>Can anyone help me register this as a screen saver?

Alan,

If it's an old 16bit screen saver (i.e. 16 bit code, not 16 bit colour depth!) then you are out of luck AFAIK, XP will not run these.

Regards

Mike

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