PC MAGAZINE Windows Dressing
Screensavers
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This is a set of six new Windows 3.1 screensaver programs...

 SHARKS & FISH        Fish and sharks struggle for supremacy
                      in this animated simulation of predator vs prey

 MAZE                 Four contestants take on an endless variety of
                      mazes, each with different strategies and skills

 CLOCK                See the time normally, backwards or in chatty
                      English text

 LEAK                 Watch water drip down the inside of your screen,
                      smudging and tearing the Windows desktop

 SPIDER               A large spider scuttles across your display...
                      if you leave your system for an extended time,
                      you'll be treated to a taste of the web-spinner's
                      art

 DINOS                Dinosaurs no longer walk the planet but they can
                      walk across your screen... watch out for herds and
                      a poor Stegosaurus being pursued by a T-Rex.

Installing the screensavers
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The installation program supplied will install the screensavers
by copying their program files into your main Windows directory.
You can do this manually if you prefer by copying the relevant
.SCR file or files across from the \SAVERS directory on your
original Windows Dressing disk.

Setting up and running the screen savers
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Once the screensavers are installed on your machine, you can set them
up and try them out using the normal Windows Control Panel. Start
the Control Panel by double-clicking its icon... it's normally found
in your 'Main' program group within the Program Manager.

Once the Control Panel is loaded, click 'Desktop' for the desktop 
options. You can now select one of the screensavers from the list
presented in the middle of the options display. 

Click 'Setup' to set up the screen saver to your taste. Each screen
saver also has an 'Info' button on its Setup display to tell you a
little about it. Click 'Test' to try the screensaver out.

The main desktop options display lets you set the number of minutes
before the currently selected screensaver starts. For normal use,
we suggest you set this to 10 minutes or more. This is perfectly 
safe for your monitor and means that the screensaver isn't likely
to interrupt you when you're thinking or having a break. Some older
programs also perform long calculations or disk operations without
asking Windows not to start the screensaver so a long delay is
usually preferable.

De-installing the screensavers
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If at a later date, you wish to remove one or more screensavers,
perhaps to free up some disk space, you can do so as follows.

  1. Make sure the screensaver(s) you want to remove are not
     selected in the Control Panel.

  2. Delete the relevant .SCR file from the main Windows directory.
     For example, the leak screensaver is in the file LEAK.SCR.

  3. If you want to be extra tidy, you can remove the setup
     information for a particular screensaver from the CONTROL.INI
     file. CONTROL.INI is a text file which you can edit with the
     Windows Notepad or other text editor. It's a good idea to make
     a copy of it before making changes, just in case, and to be
     careful not to disturb other instructions within in.

     A screensaver's setup data is held in a few lines starting
     with a section heading like this: [Screensaver.name] where
     name is the name of the screensaver. Delete the section 
     heading and the lines that follow up to the next blank line
     and section heading.

     This step isn't strictly necessary but it keeps the CONTROL.INI
     file small and tidy.

Other information
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Dinosaurs
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The Dinosaur screensaver uses quite large graphics and prepares these
before each scene. This means it can take a few seconds for dinosaurs
to appear but allows the program to operate on systems with little 
memory. The Dinosaurs look best if your system has at least 256 
colours. If your PC isn't a fast model, you may want to pick one of
the one dinosaur at once options rather than let the program create
its random scenes.

Passwords
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All the screensavers except Leak support the Windows screensaver
password system... you can enable the password for any particular
screensaver from its setup box. While screensaver passwords are
enabled and disabled separately for each program, Windows keeps
only one password for all the screensavers you're using.

Copyright
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(C)1993 Ziff-Davis (UK) Limited & Strange Software Limited.