▷ Activate screen saver windows 10

Do you remember those precious and lightweight CRT computer monitors ? Surely you also remember their screen savers. In this article we will teach you how to activate the Windows 10 screen saver again and we will also teach you how to install new ones. You can remember old times by activating these animated backgrounds for when our equipment is not being used.

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Without a doubt one of the things that we surely have most marked by fire from the old operating systems is the screen saver. Back in the days of Windows 98, Windows 2000, and the early days of Windows XP, we had these great phosphor CRT display monitors among us that always needed a screen saver.

In today's monitors there is no need to use a screen protector, since its function was only necessary in these old screens. This was because, if we left a static image on a CRT screen for a long time, it would be physically recorded on our screen in the end. And if this did not happen, we would get a screen malfunction with irreversible problems. For this reason it was necessary either to turn off the camera or to keep its image continuously in motion.

Although we may not need it, surely we are all excited to see the Windows 10 screen saver at least working for a while, so today we are going to fulfill a dream.

Activate Windows 10 screen saver

Indicate that to do this we will have to have Windows 10 activated by license

• What we must do is go to the desktop and right click on it. Then we choose the option " Personalize "

• Now we will open a configuration window in which we must go to the " Lock screen " option In the right area of ​​the window we navigate to the lower options until we find " Screen saver settings "

• Clicking on it, a window will appear quite similar to the ones we used to have

• To activate the screen saver we must display the list in the window. Here we can choose between several different screensavers

Customize screen saver

When we choose one of them, the button on the right of " Configuration... " will be activated. If we click on it we will have new options to customize the chosen screen saver.

Not everyone has a customization option, specifically what they have will be:

• Photographs: We will be able to choose a directory where we have stored photos so that they are displayed. We can choose the transition speed and the random mode

• 3D text: here we will have enough customization options. We can place both custom text and the time. We can also configure resolution, speed, font size and other interesting options.

In addition, on the main screen we can configure the waiting time until the screen saver is activated and if we want the lock screen to appear when it is removed.

Download and install Windows 10 screen saver

In addition to those that we already have available, we can also download others from the Internet and install them to make them available.

An interesting page where you can download screensavers is screensaverplanet. In it you will find mythical screensavers like infinite tubes. We are going to install this one:

• We downloaded the screen saver from the website. The file will come compressed with.ZIP extension

• We extract the file inside it We must place it in the following path:

C: \ Windows \ System32

It is not mandatory, but if we place it here we will be sure that we will not move it again.

• Right-click on it and choose the “ Install ” option and it will be installed automatically

Other screen savers on this page already have their own installers, so the procedure will be done just like any other program.

This is how we can activate and install screen savers in our Windows 10.

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Which screensaver was your favorite? Leave us in the comments if you were one of those who used screensavers or if you didn't even know what it was.