Disney (or any other) Screen Saver: so easy!

[djkeenan]

Disney (or any other) Screen Saver: so easy!

I’m sure 99% of you know all about this, but despite my 20+ years playing with computers, I just learned how to make your own screen saver with Microsoft XP.

It started after I found the DIS and began really enjoying the WDW pictures from people like Dan Murphy and Webmaster Pete. I figured out that a simple right mouse-click over any graphic brings up a choice called “Set as Background”. With that one click I could capture that image and make it my desktop background so I could enjoy it over and over again. Every few days I would find another picture I liked and changed the background.

Soon I realized that I should save these favorites for future use and used another right-click option “Save Picture As…” to place the photo in a file I created called “Disney”.

Then last week I somehow stumbled upon the way to create your own screen saver:
Right click on a blank area of your desktop and select “Properties”
Select the tab for “Screen Saver”
Select “My Pictures Slideshow” from the drop box list of screensaver choices .
For “Settings” use “Browse” to find the file where you store your favorite pictures (mine was “Disney”.
Set the timing you want and change other options if you wish, then enjoy!

I can’t believe I didn’t figure this out a long time ago. Duh!

If any of you are interested, here are links to two of my favorite pics. The first, castle1 is courtesy of Dan Murphy and is my very favorite. The second, spaceship-earth was found on www.wdwfun.com Several of my latest additions came from *********************

I’m going to start a thread in The Lodge Library with links to favorite pictures and ask that you add to it when you find a good one to share. Seems like us Disney freaks can never get too much of a good thing.

 

[Dan Murphy]

David, what I said to you in a PM (private message), based solely from your post above, was............

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Sounds neat about your screensaver. Cool.

A favor though. I do think you are talking about posting links to the pictures once you have them saved wherever you save them. I ask you though, if not your own links, to not link to my pictures on sites other than the DIS. On the DIS is fine, but really do not associate with the myriad of DIS 'spinoffs', and do prefer my things not be on them. I did read your post as your linking to your links, which is great, just, please, not my links, off the DIS.

Thanks.

Again, neat idea!!!!!

And followed up with a reply to your response of wondering whether it was okay to post my pictures or not..........

Hey, David.

Only thing I was asking was to not use my link to link a picture on any sites other than the DIS. I really don't like those soites, have looked at most, including that one, and, though as you say, smaller, a bit more personal, most are just trashier versions of the DIS, sort of 'the teacher is out of the room' syndrome. The DIS is fine for me, and granted, big, sometimes a bit less personal, things move quickly, but I do like the standards that are maintained (most of the time) and that is what attracted me 5 years ago to the DIS. As for other place, no other personnas to join in, just Dan Murphy here, LOL. And the DIS suits me well.

I do hope to see you at a meet, David, we are looking for one end of April maybe.
Dan

(misspellings left in as no edit of my PM)

PS: I still think it is a great idea, David, hope my pictures are enjoyed by you or whomever, and also hope to meet you somewhere along the way.

Dan

 

[MickeyCrazed]

Just wondering what ********** meant?

 

[hawke]