Create Your Own Screen Savers

Use your own pictures as a screen saver.

You can use your own pictures as screen savers too, by creating a slideshow of images in your picture library. Using the My Pictures Slideshow in the Control Panel’s Display options, you can display images on the screen from anywhere between six seconds and three minutes before transitioning to the next image. Transitions vary, and range from fading in, to sliding in from a corner, to coming together in a checkerboard pattern. Back in the day, oh, the early ’80s and into the ’90s, screen savers were necessary to avoid an image “burning” into the screen. That’s not believed to be true anymore, and screen savers are really just cosmetic.

To create a screen saver using your own images:

1. Open the My Pictures folder (or the folder where your images are stored) and verify that multiple pictures are saved in that folder.

2. Click Start | Control Panel. In Control Panel, open Display. You can also right-click an empty area of the Desktop and select Properties. (If you’re in Category view, you’ll have to pick Appearance and Themes first.)

Control Panel has two views, Category and Classic. Classic view shows the icons without having to first choose a specific category. Category view requires that a category be selected first, as in Step 2.

3. Select the Screen Saver tab.

4. From the choices in the Screen Saver drop-down list, select My Pictures Slideshow.

5. Click Settings, and configure how often to change the picture, how much of the screen to use when displaying a picture, and what folder to use. Configure other settings as applicable. Click OK. You’ll see a preview in the window, as shown

own screen saver

6. Click OK to close the Display Properties dialog box.

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