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. 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? 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? 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!

Thank you for that jmhoffman, very simple. I found that the default W7 screen saver remained until I selected the "My Pictures Slideshow" - obvious now I think about it, but when I first read jmhoffman's post I had thought that I was replacing the Photos slideshow and that it would just start automatically. I have an external screen set up with W7's "Projector Extend": whereas Photos closes the external screen down and does the slideshow on the laptop's screen, My Pictures randomly chooses one or the other.

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

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

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.

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

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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.

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?
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?
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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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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2012-11-16T21:38:38+00:00

Thank you for that jmhoffman, very simple.

I found that the default W7 screen saver remained until I selected the "My Pictures Slideshow" - obvious now I think about it, but when I first read jmhoffman's post I had thought that I was replacing the Photos slideshow and that it would just start automatically. I have an external screen set up with W7's "Projector Extend": whereas Photos closes the external screen down and does the slideshow on the laptop's screen, My Pictures randomly chooses one or the other.
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2013-01-05T20:49:39+00:00

Hi. Where can I get the file if I don't have XP?
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2013-01-05T21:18:54+00:00

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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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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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