As many of you probably know... most screen savers just duplicate themselves when you have a dual monitor system. This includes the included XP screen savers.

Some of you may not know... When XP came out, MS did away with the OpenGL versions of the screen savers. 3D pipes etc have been changed.

However...

You can still run the OGL screen savers if you copy them from just about any old NT/W2K machine.

Do This...

On the donor NT/W2K machine...
Copy the open GL screen savers to a folder/disk. (These are all the 3D ones... Pipes, flower box, and flying object.)
Rename the files. I put a 2 on the end or in place of the last character. (The files must use the 8.3 naming format to work properly.)
Copy the renamed files into C:\Windows\System32 under XP. (All versions if you have the default install.)

Now when you go into the screen saver tab, you'll see 3D Pipes and 3D Pipes (OpenGL).

All of the OpenGL screen savers will span the screens as one space. OGL Pipes etc will draw as if you had one very large screen.

Note... I'm told XP might have deleted OpenGL support from the default MS video drivers. Most people should be running the actual drivers from the system board or Vid card makers, which always include OpenGL support that I've seen. If the OpenGL screensavers don't work then you may need to update Video drivers. (If they don't work for you, nothing else that uses OpenGL will work either.)

Easter Egg: In 3D Pipes (OpenGL Only.) set the joint type to mixed. This will periodically throw an odd object as a pipe joint.

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The Ogre's Fiero Cave (It's also at the top of every forum page...)

Coolness!
That's good stuff right there.

More easter egg... In 3D pipes (open GL)
select a texture. anything will do. then delete/rename the file you used for the texture.

When selecting a texture for pipes for normal use... try to find a small grey scale or B&W image. The pipes screen saver will then tint the image with various colors as well as map it to the pipes. This gives more diversity to your pipes. I think this may work for bother versions of pipes. Haven't looked recently at the XP version.

The defualt Windows XP screensaver goes across both of my screens. I do have the screen set to extend my desktop, but who really wants a screen of the same things.

more fun, find a small black and white fiero logo

I found my tiny avitar used on another site, and set the pipes texture to use the fiero logo. So now all the pipes are wrapped in the fiero nose emblem.

really pretty cool, most people don't realize it until they are looking close at it.

Now for the open GL. So who has a 2000 box kicking around that wants to rape the files, rename them, then zip them up. I have not even seen a 2000 box running in so long. Most I see are XP or Linux. IMHO XP actully runs faster than 2000 on older machines if you turn down the GUI a bit.

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is there a way to pull these off a disk? as I don't have NT/2000 installed atm.

You should be able to dig them out of the CAB files on an installation CD. Or any disk drive with 2000/NT on it even if you can't or just don't want to boot it.

CAB files open just like ZIP in XP. I have no idea what CAB the screen savers are in.

If you get them from the CAB files, and the last character in the name is _ then you'll also have to run them thru Expand. (Expand is a really old MS decompression that is still used.)

I just was looking at the XP ones... maybe I had something set wrong... Pipes at least is drawing as one big space. I still like the OGL ones better.