Windows 7 - Live Photo Gallery Screen Saver - file name option, freezing the pic, and won't sleep

Anonymous
2010-02-09T19:08:02+00:00

I just upgraded from Windows XP. There's a few features that I miss and I'm not sure if there's anyway to get them.

  1. In XP, you could have the file name appear in the corner of the picture when the screensaver was running. Really helpful for finding pics that you want to send or ID'ing the picture. Any way of getting this feature in Win7?
  2. The <arrow down> key would freeze the current picture. In Win7, it now wakes up the computer. Anyway to freeze the pics in screensaver mode?
  3. Not sure how much this is related to the screensaver, but the monitor and the computer are both set to go to sleep after 1 hour. Neither happens. Even a day or two later it's still running.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Anonymous
2010-03-11T14:15:13+00:00

Here's the solution.  Copy ssmypics.scr from your old XP machine to the Window 7 machine c:windows:system32 directory.  then the old screensaver is available in settings.  worked for me!

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-12-25T03:35:14+00:00

    I'll assume it makes no difference what bit OS Win 7 is using in order for XP's ssmypics to work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-07-26T17:44:22+00:00

    A very simple fix for a system with XP dual boot.  I'm guessing they're pushing us to the Windows Live screensaver even though it doesn't have that feature.

    Thanks for the tip!

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