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No, I'm not talking about making a slideshow of pictures. How can I make the actual file that windows (at least windows 7) uses for screensavers?

It is a .scr format, and when I opened it in Notepad, I got a bunch of symbols, with a few words scattered throughout, but that was expected. It looks like it was made with directx, xml, and even assembly (for the shaders) based on the recognizable code there.

I just went on to a site-hosting place and made this:

Link to ribbons.scr code

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Here it is an example of how making a screensaver. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686421(v=vs.85).aspx

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  • I'm not exactly sure what that link does. It seems to be grabbing some rss file from the os. I'm looking for a screensaver, and I don't think that is one. – Code Monkey Oct 13 '12 at 21:40
  • Whoops, my bad. I just looked right over the part with the answer, or at least what I think is the answer. Is it really as easy as just adding 5 lines of code to the project file, and everything works right? As a followup, how can I add it into the Windows directory for screensavers? Right-click->Install? – Code Monkey Oct 13 '12 at 21:43
  • AFAIK in Windows7, yes, you have to right-click->install. – Claudi Oct 13 '12 at 23:02