Steven W Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 (edited) Setting up a PC for a friend, she wants the Underwater Screensaver (I think it originally shipped with Windows 98). I recall that it was part of the Plus! For Kids pack, and you can download a Demo of that here that comes with the Underwater theme and screensaver:ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/kids/kidplusd.exeTried to run the exe, it whines that it's not meant for this version of Windows. Extracted it with 7-zip, Copied Uwater.scr and Uwater.dll to the System32 folder, double-clicked the SCR file and screen just went blank. So copied all these files to the System32 folder:kpsetup.dllUwater.dllUwater.scrwl32dll.dllwildlb32.dllVoila, double-clicking the SCR now works. One problem, it doesn't come up in XP's list of screensavers. When I bring up that dialog it's simply not there. I suppose, maybe, I could set up a folder with all the files extracted and try to get XP to use the theme file, but would prefer not to. Any ideas?Edit: kpsetup.dll is unnecessary. Edited July 3, 2011 by Steven W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Did you regsvr32 the .dlls and reboot the machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven W Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 (edited) Well, it may have already been there.. it's called Wildlife 32 (probably explains the names of the other DLLs). I just changed the registryHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Scrnsave.exeto point to Uwater.scr, and that's what came up. I was looking for underwater or uwater. So, problem solved.Thanks for the prompt reply dencorso. Hehe, I did try what you suggested a few minutes before changing the registry. Edited July 3, 2011 by Steven W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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