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After Hours

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

By Greg Shultz August 22, 2011, 1:13 PM PDT

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ntI 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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ntAs 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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ntRunning Setup.exe of the floppy took a few moments to kick in, but soon the introduction screen displayed.

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ntOf course, I was prompted for my name and company.

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ntI laughed so hard when I saw the old Register Now message featuring an image of a mailman.

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ntThere 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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ntI clicked the Run Scenes button to get started.

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ntThe Microsoft Scenes screen saver program provided you with a host of configuration options.

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ntIf you minimized Program Manager, you would see that Microsoft Scenes had set up an image on the desktop. 

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ntFrom 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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ntFrom the Choose Wallpaper dialog box, you could choose a different wallpaper as we select a different picture set.

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ntFrom the Scenes Wizards, you could add additional picture sets.

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ntNow, let’s just sit back and enjoy the screensaver show.

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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