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Good warm-up screen saver for XP?

 
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lyd



Joined: 15 Sep 2007
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Location: Lake Mills, Wi

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:48 am    Post subject: Good warm-up screen saver for XP?

Most people seem to recommend letting tv run for 10 or 20 minutes before doing any serious viewing or making adjustments. I don't have TV. I could pop a random movie in, of course, but that is kind of irritating. So far, I have been mostly just turning on the projector and leaving the desktop up for a bit.

I don't think I want to make a habit of that, though, for burn-in reasons. Also, who doesn't like a cool screen saver? Wink

Anyone have any recommendations for a good one that would do a good job of getting everything warmed up, without any static bits? I suppose a simple slideshow is the easiest answer, but that seems kind of lame. Plus, my pr0n drive is offline right now.

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AnalogRocks
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:58 am    Post subject:

Just go to take a screw out of your computer case and you'll be 3 hours into the warm up already. Ahhh computer time.

I use the sharks screen saver. It cycles the static bits once a minute. You can also set it to no back ground IIRC.

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Tom.W



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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:29 am    Post subject:

Or play this or this ... Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOsHc6MEwpU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrBK4CYcjEU&feature=related

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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:11 pm    Post subject:

the man was a genius of comedy!!
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