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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 solution only LOOKS like a lot of steps because I broke it down in minute detail with pictures, plus the (optional) part about un-hiding hidden directories in step 1. It's really easy and quick once you get the hang of it. And vbs files are no different than batch files; they only call a different process to execute.
Idle in Task Scheduler is exactly the same type of trigger that Windows has always used to launch screensavers, bud. When the user activity is idle. No screensaver that I've ever seen is invoked while the user is opening programs or moving the mouse around. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this method. Your way is almost twice as complicated as mine.
Thanks for the comment though =)
You replied you can"understand why they do that" in reference to the blank screen with the bubbles. I can't, please elaborate. I think it's just shoddy or lazy workmanship by Microsoft.
Thx for the feedback... it sucks we loose aero and allot of the eye candy I grew to love.
