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The mysterious missing screen saver

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by ideafixer 1 view

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I have a laptop running win 2k. I went into display settings and attempted to pick a screen saver. There aren't any? How do I get the windows default screen savers?

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by thechas

One of 2 things has happened:

All your screen savers files are gone.

The .scr extension has been taken over by an application and Windows no longer recognizes it as the file extension for screen savers.

To see if you still have the files, use Windows Explorer to search the C: drive for *.SCR
The files 'normally' reside in either C:\Windows
or C:\Windows\System
The path might be a little different on a W2K PC.

If the files are there, then you need to find out what program is associated with the .scr extension.

In Windows Explorer, click on tools, folder options, then the file types tab.
Scroll down, and see if the SCR extension is listed. (it wasn't on my XP box)
If it is listed, you need to determine if the associated program is one you use and need, or a piece of mal-ware that has taken control of the extension.

Chas

by ideafixer

All of the SCR files were gone. I copied them from another machine then placed the files back into the appropriate directories.

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