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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."
Havnt tried this yet but will do when i get home from work -
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2139-bubbles-screen-saver-change-settings.html
Good Luck!
One can change all settings, and all of them will be reflected, when the screensaver starts - except for the background. It will not use the current desktop.
To be more precise:
(also, when the screensaver is started manually by double-clicking bubbles.scr)
With this setting, the screensaver will run on top of the desktop when started manually, but underneath any (docked to the left or right side of the monitor) metro-app: the bubbles will appear from behind the metro-app.
My guess is, this behaviour was the reason for covering the desktop and the metro-apps with a solid background, on top of which the bubbles appear - otherwise visible metro-apps will burn-in despite an enabled screensaver.
Now we have an explanation for the introduced "design change", but we still do not have a "metro-screen saver" that would run on top of both the "regular" desktop and the metro-apps.
For the time being, I use the setting of Showbubbles=0, and MaterialGlas=0 (solid bubbles) because this gives you a real black background with shiny 3D bubbles.
This design change is a bad one and the customer should have a choice on the background. I have a grandson who loves to watch his image get covered with the bubbles. This should be returned to windows 7 function or available as a owner option.
That was part of the aero theme--transparent windows-- which is not available on Windows 8.
