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
    2013-04-04T17:37:12+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!

    I tried the above but nothing changed for me in Settings...

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-07T23:04:27+00:00

    Great, glad I could help, for all others, see "Best" + "Screen Saver Stuff" here: http://lastborns.surf.to

    Great to still be of help!  Please utilize this forum's link, "Found this helpful" (to the right of this post), so it will be easier to find by others.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-05T21:18:54+00:00

    Hi,

    The site has moved, but I was redirected when I took "/MyPicturesSlideshow.zip." off. You are right, it worked perfectly. Thank you, selvan7777.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-05T20:49:39+00:00

    Hi. Where can I get the file if I don't have XP?

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