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In Windows 7, the Bubbles screen saver created bubbles that moved over the top of whatever was on my screen at the time.
In Windows 8, if I go to the screen saver settings and preview the Bubbles screensaver, it shows the same behavior – bubbles moving over the top of my existing desktop.
But when the Bubbles screensaver actually activates in Windows 8, the bubbles only appear over a background color which I selected.
Is there something wrong with my settings or video drivers?
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There is nothing wrong with your screensaver settings, or your video drivers and system. .
A design change was made in Windows 8 that prevents screensavers from drawing over an image of the desktop. Any screensaver that previously drew over the desktop, such as Bubbles, will instead draw over a black background. The screensaver preview is incorrectly showing Windows 7 behavior.
That was already answered above by a Microsoft Forum Moderator
"A design change was made in Windows 8 that prevents screensavers from drawing over an image of the desktop. Any screensaver that previously drew over the desktop, such as Bubbles, will instead draw over a black background. The screensaver preview is incorrectly showing Windows 7 behavior."
You can just press preview, then it will show over your screen, but miss kind of its use if you have to turn it on each time :P
I made the change from windows 7 pro to windows 8 pro and miss the ability of my bubbles screensaver to use my desktop as the background.
I did some searching and saw that in windows 7 there were ways to go into the registry and create a DWORD to toggle the option on or off. I tried in windows 8 and it didn't work. Anyone know if there is another way to do this? Having a blue background for bubbles is really really annoying.
If there is another way to do it, I haven't managed to find it yet. The only thing I have managed to find so far was a bubble screen saver by an outside company that pretends to be the old style Windows bubble screen saver. (Unfortunately it wasn't nearly as pretty as the original, so I don't use it.) Let's hope this makes it into a future patch along with the fix for the issue that forced me to put a password on my 7-year-old's profile to stop the annoying auto logins. The older versions of some of these things was just better than the current versions, in my humble opinion.
