tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72966361306118852412024-03-05T01:45:15.164-08:00Dual Monitor Screen SaverRun this screen saver on your dual monitor, or third, fourth monitor.metadataconsulting (profile)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02252886574672860301noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296636130611885241.post-36953514797671852422014-09-23T08:55:00.002-07:002017-04-27T07:12:31.635-07:00Dual Monitor Screen Saver<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">2nd Screen Saver </span></b> is a photo gallery carousel "screen saver" like app that you control. You run it when you want. It’s meant to be used on your dual monitors, or </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">3rd, 4th monitors like a screen saver to show off your pictures and prevent LCD image </span><a href="http://www.overclock.net/t/1430257/what-causes-ghosting-for-monitors" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">ghosting</a><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. You can run multiple instances at same time! 2nd Screen Saver works on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 10 Creators Update and server equivalents.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This app is very easy to use, simply drag and drop a folder containing images into the load bar (light green area). A status will indicate the number of images found, load time and memory used by the app.</span><br />
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<li><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Press F11 key to maximize and hide all controls. Toggle to show.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Drag and drop any folder with pictures into load bar.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Load bar shows number of pics, memory and time to load folder.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Set wait time interval for changing pictures. Default is 10 seconds.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">0 interval – Flash bomb of all your pictures at once.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">indicates what version (32 or 64-bit) of Windows you are running</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br />Unzip to Desktop and double-click on </span><b><span style="color: #073763;">ScreenSaver2nd.exe</span></b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> to run.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">ScreenSaver2nd.exe is 32-bit software has been tested on <b>Windows XP</b>, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 with Intel CPUs only – sorry no AMD support. Preferred computers that contain 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i3, i5, i7 processors and requires </span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">.NET 4.0 full framework, get free <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Note: All images in are loaded into memory (for speed), so you are bound by the <a href="https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=8208" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">memory of your machine</a> and other <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">apps running</a>. So if this app crashes (there is <u>no harm</u> done if it does), it just loaded too many images from that directory. <br /><br /><b>Work-around</b>: Try closing your other applications first. If that is not an option, <br />create a new directory and copy images into that directory and remove an image one-by-one until it works for you computer and situation.<br /><br />Images nowadays can be <i>extremely large</i> given the advent of 14 Mega-pixel cameras, produce a image of size 14 Mb on disk. Therefore, 1 Gig of memory will hold roughly 73 pictures of 14 Mb each. 2 Gigs holds approx. 146 pictures. 4 Gigs </span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">holds </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">approx. 292 pictures. </span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8 Gigs holds </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">approx.</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 584 pictures. 16 Gigs </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">holds</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">approx. </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1,168 large pictures.</span><br />
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