Hidden Screensaver Settings [APP]


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As Im sure some of you know, Vista's screensavers have some hidden settings: http://www.tweakvista.com/article39129.aspx

here is a screen:

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It requires .NET framework 2.0, 2 Dll's Now that come in the zip

Mirror 1 [Reccomened]

http://www.box.net/shared/a5ye6gzs4g

Another Mirror:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/5/1852...leEditDebug.zip

Right Click And Save Target as for this one!

Right Click and Save Target/Linked File As!

Other Download:

http://www.freewebs.com/omnicoder/IdleEditDebug.zip

Bubbles with modified settings in the screensaver applet, Picture:

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Aurora Tab

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Mystify Tab

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Ribbon Tab

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NOTE: Make sure you run as admin!

NOTE 2: The Glass has no exception handler yet. If you dont have DWM Enabled, run this with /noglass at cmd prompt!

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YAY!!! It's done Now! I will be publishing my Dev Log for it (and maybe the code...) later. I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to report bugs/ask questions.

Download: http://www.freewebs.com/omnicoder/IdleEditDebug.zip

Right Click and Save Target As

  • 1 month later...

Omnicoder, I am running vista screensaver on winXP SP2 and they are working fine, the only problem are the configuration have to be done manually. I noticed you have an applet that works on Vista. Do you think you could make some adjustments that would make it work on XP also? I have tried the /noglass option and it did not work. There was an error from .Net Framework about "Unhandled exception" "Attempted to read or write protected memory". Thank you.

  • 4 weeks later...

HUGE Memory leak.

My computer froze when running this app. I had to force a reboot which I haven't done in years. I opened the task manager to see what was going on when I ran it a second time. My physical memory went from 34% to 99% then froze again.

System Specs:

Windows Vista Ultimate x64

4GB RAM

AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

Other specs are irrelevant.

  • 10 months later...
HUGE Memory leak.

My computer froze when running this app. I had to force a reboot which I haven't done in years. I opened the task manager to see what was going on when I ran it a second time. My physical memory went from 34% to 99% then froze again.

System Specs:

Windows Vista Ultimate x64

4GB RAM

AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

Other specs are irrelevant.

Same here. My system froze up tight. Same system specs except Intel instead of AMD. Is this a 64-bit thing? Is this app only good on 32-bit Windows?

Ron

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