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\n\tI was recently digging through my old floppy disk collection and stumbled across a pair of disks titled Microsoft Scenes Sierra Club Nature Collection. I then remembered that back in 1994, Microsoft Home released a set of seven or so Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper programs of which this themed collection of 40 Sierra Club photographs was a part.
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\n\tAs such, I fired up my Windows 3.1 virtual machine and installed it. So, let’s take a trip down memory lane and relive the Microsoft Scenes Sierra Club Nature Collection.
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\n\t(You’ll have to pardon this grainy image, I no longer have the box and had to make due with a scan from an old Microsoft Home catalog.)
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\n\tRunning Setup.exe of the floppy took a few moments to kick in, but soon the introduction screen displayed.
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\n\tOf course, I was prompted for my name and company.
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\n\tI chose Complete Installation.
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\n\tI laughed so hard when I saw the old Register Now message featuring an image of a mailman.
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\n\tThere was a special offer coupon in the box that allowed you to send in some of your photographs to be incorporated in the Microsoft Scenes screen saver program.
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\n\tI clicked the Run Scenes button to get started.
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\n\tThe Microsoft Scenes screen saver program provided you with a host of configuration options.
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\n\tIf you minimized Program Manager, you would see that Microsoft Scenes had set up an image on the desktop.
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\n\tFrom the Screen Saver Settings dialog box you could choose the way that you wanted you screen saver to function. As I mentioned, there were several versions of the Microsoft Scenes and you could have more than one installed at a time. If you did, you could click the Picture Set drop down and select another set of images.
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\n\tFrom the Choose Wallpaper dialog box, you could choose a different wallpaper as we select a different picture set.
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\n\tFrom the Scenes Wizards, you could add additional picture sets.
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\n\tNow, let’s just sit back and enjoy the screensaver show.
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\n\tIf you are interested in learning more about the defunct line of software applications and personal hardware products from Microsoft Home, check out this Wikipedia page.
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My first computer was a Kaypro 16 \"luggable\" running MS-DOS 2.11 which I obtained while studying computer science in 1986. After two years, I discovered that I had a knack for writing documentation and shifted my focus over to technical writing.
