![]() ![]() Click on the Tray button to minimize program at system tray. Check the Auto start on computer startup box to load every time you load Windows. Click on the Start button to activate it. Set the desired time in seconds at the top. After doing that correctly, the program should look like the screenshot above. Now we browse to C:\Windows\System32 (folder System32 in folder Windows in hard disk C) and select the file Bubbles.scr (the extension may be hidden) and press OK to confirm. So we much select All files *.* to display every file type. By default will only display EXE and BAT files. Now click on the folder icon to browse for that program. Then run Watch 4 Idle and check the Execute a program or batch box. ![]() Make that to none, so screensaver is not activated by Windows. To do that, click on the search icon and type screen. So we can make Watch 4 Idle execute the Bubbles screensaver after a set number of seconds the computer is idle! Doing that is like pressing the preview button, so the screensaver will run as in Windows 7, that is over our currently open windows, and not in a solid colored background! Yes, I tested it! It works!įirst we must disable the Windows screensaver, so there is no conflict with Watch 4 Idle when used to start the screensaver. A screensaver is just a Windows program with SCR extension instead of EXE. This can be to make it sleep or shutdown or restart, or execute a program. I was shocked to read in a Microsoft tech forum that this is not a bug! Microsoft deliberately disabled screensavers drawing over desktop in Windows 8 and 10 because they had problem doing that right in Metro interface (the one with the tiles instead of old desktop)! I also found a solution: You can download a utility such as Watch 4 Idle which can be set to trigger an action when the computer is idle for a set interval in seconds. Well I don't like bugs, so I did a little Google search about the issue. I suggest to leave this screensaver alone and use a nicer one, such as Marine Aquarium screensaver. If Screensaver Tweaker cannot make it work, no other utility probably will as it modifies the same registry keys. ![]() Here must be the cause of the bug because this screensaver was introduced in Vista and included in newer Windows versions without modifications. As far as I know there is some difference in the way DirectDraw and Direct3D are implemented in Windows 8.1 and 10 from that of Windows 7. Yes, I just checked, the same is true in Windows 8.1. The funny thing is that you cannot adjust any settings from Windows (message that this screensaver has no settings you can adjust) and Screensaver Tweaker has no effect on that! This must be a bug on Windows 8.1 and 10. In preview you can see the screensaver as it should, but when time comes to automatically launch it removes the wallpaper and uses a solid color as background. ![]()
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