Giveaway of the Day Forums

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   Frique
   Member

   While I personally do not download the screen savers, I can see that they do bring a measure of happiness to some peoples lives. Who am I to deny someone a little happiness. I am grateful for all the hard work that the team puts into this site. About once every two or three weeks I find a program that I find interesting and download it. Those are the programs that bring me happiness. While the team at GOTD cannot make everyone happy all the time, they do a pretty good job of making as many people happy as possible. Oh, and Spiritwolf, I used to use one from SETI to help crunch numbers looking for a signal from outer space. I lost it in a reformat a couple of years ago and just never reinstalled it.

   Posted 15 years ago #
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   Local
   Member

   Personally I like screensavers, good screensavers anyway.
   I like to turn them on to watch when I feel like chilling out and have never set one up to start when my PC is idle (As if THAT happens)
   BUT.
   I won't download them from Gaotd because all of the screensavers I have tried on here so far have been full of junk.

   The point I'm making is, screensaver = Nice.
   Stupid program installed to organise? time? run? waste space? = Waste of resources and space.

   Now if after activating all that was left was a .scr file and nice happy pictures I'd take every one of them.

   Does any other screensaver hater have this problem or am I alone here?

   Posted 15 years ago #
3. 

   promytius
   Member

   please see my post Oct.1, 2010 on Gemini Screensavers - maybe you won't be such a booster...

   Posted 14 years ago #
4. 

   RosnSC
   Member

   promytius, advising/suggesting to people not to download/use Gemini Screensavers is like advising people not to eat (say) Hershey's Dark Chocolate. Some people have problems with them, and thus can't use/consume them. Others don't have those problems, and can enjoy them when they wish to. I, for one, don't have any problems with either one. I have been running Gemini Screensavers, off/on for a number of years, now, and have enjoyed them. Ditto for the Hershey's Dark. :)

   Posted 14 years ago #
5. 

   copmom
   Member

   Personally I think the best screen saver to use is all of the photos (jpegs, etc.) stored on your computer. We take pictures install them on our machines and forget them. Using them as an every changing screen saver recaptures the memories of what you have stored!

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   RosnSC
   Member

   Copmom, I like the Gemini and others screensavers, but find when they are running my computer's fan runs really fast. When the screensaver stops running, the fan runs normal, again. Because of that I don't use screensavers on my computer, which is a several-years-old Compaq, running Windows XP SP3.

   Having said that, for our desktop backgrounds we like to use photos we've taken of our horses, ourselves with the horses, and the pictures that came on the computer. (Hmm...has a lightbulb moment, here)...instead of the generic Windows XP screensaver, can use the same photos as for background (duh!...smacks forehead...lol)

   Posted 14 years ago #

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