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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: EpF on April 09, 2006, 03:08:04 pm

Title: MC and Screensavers
Post by: EpF on April 09, 2006, 03:08:04 pm

Anyone know if you can change some setting whereby if MC is playing a track, the screensaver doesn't activate?

Second-best would be a shortcut or utility that allows you to disable the screensaver without having to jump through the default hoops it takes to do that...

Title: Re: MC and Screensavers
Post by: marko on April 10, 2006, 01:17:26 am

many many moons ago, I came across some screensavers that I thought were quite cool. and they're still going..

http://www.synthesoft.com/

I don't know if they still do, but they used to bundle a screensaver control app for your system tray. double clicking it would run the saver, right clicking it brings up this menu:
(http://www.theganghut.co.uk/pics/ia/ssc.jpg)

There are a fair few of these around, some free, some not so free, but of all the ones I tried, I found this the least troublesome. I've used it, and a nice piece of abandonware called hidden menu ( http://home.i-cable.com/lokinwai/ ) every day for several years now.

if you want the screensaver thing,  click here (http://www.theganghut.co.uk/files/runner.zip), (15.4 Kb), extract it somewhere out of the way and make a shortcut for it in your startup folder.

Title: Re: MC and Screensavers
Post by: EpF on April 10, 2006, 02:58:47 am

Cheers Marko - I nabbed both of them! HiddenMenu is great little utility, and Runner does exactly what I want.

Title: Re: MC and Screensavers
Post by: marko on April 10, 2006, 04:14:06 am

Glad you like them.
if you find you will make good use of hidden menu, remember and keep a backup of the ini file, coz the last thing you'd want to do is rebuild the thing after a format, etc. etc.