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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 chose Complete Installation.

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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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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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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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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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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

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

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

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

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

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

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

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

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

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

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Microsoft Scenes screensaver and wallpaper program

ntImage created by Greg Shultz for TechRepublic, all rights reserved.

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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ntIf 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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