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Screen savers are installed in your "Windows" directory if you use Windows 95/98, or the directory "Winnt" if you use Windows NT. You can safely delete the screen saver from these directories.
AutumnLeaves is UN installed as follows.
AutumnLeaves does not install DLL's or other system files. All files of the
AutumnLeaves program may be deleted without any danger to your system.
As an alternative you can right-click the file named "AutumnLeaves screen saver"
with the mouse. A menu appears with: Test, Configure, Install.
The Oberg Mountain Trail is shown if you click the picture or the radio button on the
right hand side, a picture of your own choice is shown if you click the radio button
on the left hand side.
The picture must be a bitmap (.bmp) file, as you can create with the Paint utility.
By clicking the button "Picture" you can select a .bmp file for display in the
background. To display a .gif or .jpg file you need to convert it to .bmp, see
below how to convert images using Internet Explorer.
You can select three "modes" to display your picture:
If you want a single color on the desktop you can make a .bmp bitmap file with the
paint utility with the color of your choice. Simply select it with the Picture button
and the desktop will be that color.
Here are some other sites with wallpapers.
You now have the image displayed in Explorer. To save the image as a .bmp file follow
these steps:
Configure / Settings
The AutumnLeaves screen saver has it's own settings, separate from the regular AutumnLeaves
desktop enhancement. After installation as described above, you select AutumnLeaves as your screen saver by opening the
"Display" control panel from the Settings. Follow these steps:
Help function
AutumnLeaves contains a help function. right-click the mouse on a button or picture,
and a button "What's this?" appears. Left-click that button and information is displayed.
You can also click the "?" icon in the AutumnLeaves title bar, and then click the item
you want information on.
Background picture
In the screensaver the standard background picture is a wonderful picture made by
Dennis O'Hara of the Oberg Mountain Trail. You can find this image and others on
Northern Images. These are wonderful
autumn pictures on Northern Images.
Full screen
Centered
Tiled
Note that the picture must
be the size of your screen for best quality, as scaled pictures usually do not look very good.
Converting .gif and .jpg images to .bmp with Explorer
AutumnLeaves cannot presently read .jpg or .gif pictures, but there are numerous utilities
to convert .jpg and .gif to .bmp (bitmap) format. The easiest way to convert a .jpg or .gif
(or other images)
to .bmp is to use Explorer. Simply go with Explorer to the web page with the image
you like, or follow these steps to open an image file you already have on your computer:
Background mask
Additionally, you can select a picture to be used as the background mask of the screen
saver. The file must be a black and white (monochrome) bitmap file, with the extension .bmp,
as created with the Paint program. The leaves will build up in the areas you painted black.
The mask area you painted black is divided up in rectangles. This costs memory and conversion
time. You can specify a limit to the number of rectangles to be used as the mask area.
The default is 10000, but feel free to set the number quite a lot higher. If the conversion
takes too long, simply make the number smaller.
Single color desktop
If you want a single color on the desktop you can make a small .bmp bitmap file with the
Paint program with the color of your choice. Simply select it with the Picture button,
and select the fullscreen option
and the desktop will be that color. If you do not specify a picture the desktop is
a simple gray.
Rick Jansen, rja@euronet.nl