Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

>>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

The best screen saver of all time ( IMHO ) was the Sierra scrantic
"guy on the island" . Folks have hacked THAT work on XP.
  soon time for him to put up the christmas lights....
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