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- Welcome to Goetz's Screen Saver
- Version 1.0 for Windows 95/98/NT
- Copyright 1998 Lawrence Goetz
- http://www.lawrencegoetz.com/
- goetz@lawrencegoetz.com
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- Introduction:
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- This screen saver program will allow you to use your own image in the
- screen saver. It's great for businesses to have their company logo, or
- use in a computer display in their store. Families can include a picture of
- their child, grandchild, pet, etc. . The image you select will bounce
- around the screen.
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- This program is a shareware program. The time limit is 2 minutes and
- then the screen saver will exit. Once registered the time limit is removed.
- Refer to register.txt in the directory in which you installed
- Goetz's Screen Saver for registration instructions.
- Registration is $10.
-
- The unregistered version can freely be distributed. Please
- contact me to let me know you are distributing it. If
- possible, please send me a complimentary copy of the
- product that it's distributed on (such as magazine or CD).
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- Questions or Comments contact me at:
- goetz@lawrencegoetz.com
- http://www.lawrencegoetz.com/
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- Installation:
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- Unzip the program and run the file setup.exe .
- The default directory to install is
- c:\program files\Goetz's Screen Saver
- You can change this if you like.
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- When the install is complete, momentarily the screen saver properties
- for your system should be displayed and Goetz's Screen Saver should be
- selected. If not, manually go into your screen saver settings. Right
- click on an empty area of the desktop and choose Properties. Then choose
- Screen Saver. Then go through the list until Goetz's Screen Saver is
- selected.
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- You can make the image displayed to be any BMP (bitmap image) on your system
- that is smaller than 640*480. If it's bigger than 640*480, it will not move
- correctly; instead it will sort of scroll. The smaller the image, the
- smoother the movement. Place the image into the directory you installed
- this screen saver to. Make the image goetzssimage.bmp, and the screen saver
- will load that image when started. The existing image is just a sample.
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- When the program runs it checks for a configuration file goetzscreensaver.ini
- located in c:\windows. There you can change the speed at which the picture
- moves at. Locate statement that reads:
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- [speed]
- value=30
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- Change the value to anything from 1 to 100. 1 is very slow, 100 is very fast.
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- The screen saver creates a default configuration file, when it's run for
- approximately 3 seconds and there is no existing configuration file.
- If you want to change the speed of the picture, let the screen saver run
- for a few seconds. Then you can edit the configuration.
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- Why does this program exit after 2 min?
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- This program is a shareware program. The time limit is 2 minutes and
- then the screen saver will exit. Once registered the time limit is removed.
- Refer to register.txt in the directory in which you installed
- Goetz's Screen Saver for registration instructions.
- Registration is $10.
-
- Visit my home page for other programs I've made:
- http://www.lawrencegoetz.com/
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- Uninstall:
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- Run the uninstall icon in the program group Goetz's Screen Saver, or from
- the Add/Remove Programs in control panel. It may ask if you want to
- remove a file cncs232.dll. You can say yes to that. However if you have
- any other programs that use that file they will not work. If you say no,
- and want to remove it manually, it's located in c:\windows\system.
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- You should also remove the file c:\windows\goetzscreensaver.ini.
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- If you installed more than once, without uninstalling it between installs,
- you will likely find duplicate icons even after uninstalling one of them.
- In that case, manually remove the icons.