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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."
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.
Wow. That seems pretty stupid to overlook the preview when Microsoft apparently made a conscious decision to make the bubble screensaver not draw over a desktop image. If they hadn't have overlooked it, then maybe we all would have just thought that they changed the way the bubbles screensaver works, but no... now they have us all worrying that our video drivers or system are messed up.
Just fix the problem. This shouldn't have been changed to begin with, or at least it should have been included as an option.
What I don't understand is that when I run the bubbles.scr program by itself it works the way we all want it to. Shows that the file itself is not messed up, just something Microsoft has done to make it not work.
To Microsoft:
Part of the question still remains unanswered..
Ok, I know that it was chosent that bubbles will appear over a solid color screen based on what windows background was initially chosen or at least not over any image.
but what i don't know is "why"? why did Microsoft opt to do this in Windows 8 ??
This is a step back, something less that can be done and I would just like to know why.
"please, because there are so many mixed answers on here, please answer this question by replying to this post so i know it is this question you are addressing, thanks"
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.
