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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."
My window 8 the same but I can not get it there my screen goes off if some action is not going on it turns off and have to login again. Hate windows 8. Screwed up bad getting it..
Look for the "Power Options" in the control panel for that one. There are several different sets of settings listed there for when things sleep or power down. It might be that you can fix that issue by setting your power options up differently. Standard settings turns things off more frequently than I like, so I clicked on the arrow in the power options window to show additional plans and selected the "high performance" plan. You can also disable the fast startup option there, as well as choose what the power and sleep buttons do.
Booo, why would MS take control of a feature away that's been in Windows for years in one form or another? The Science screensaver started featuring the desktop background back in... what, Windows 95? And now in 2013 you get around to deciding that users can't be trusted to decide what windows they might leave open when they walk away from their PCs?
Fine, let's compromise, and just run the bubbles over the wallpaper image specified by the user. Bubbles over a single colored background is an idiotic design decision, it looks terrible and takes features away from the user.
