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Old 04-22-2010, 08:52 PM   #70
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Anyone who wants to demonstrate the temporary nature of the right-click/install feature (with XP at any rate) can do this: Put a copy of MA3 anywhere EXCEPT system32. Rename it MA3X.scr. Hit right-click/install. When the Display Properties comes up, hit Apply, to make this copy your screensaver. It will appear in the list of available screensavers. You can exit Display Properties, and go back into it, and the name will still be on the list.

Now choose any other screensaver from the list, and hit Apply. The next time you bring up Display Properties, MA3X.scr will not be on the list. That's beacuse it was never copied to System32, so Windows can't find it. If it's not in the proper directory, it can only be found if it's the CURRENT screensaver (because the entire path to the current screensaver is in the Registry).

Now, if you had a copy of MA3 in System32, then right-click/install another copy, the second copy would be the one used, even though there's one in System32. Until you switch away from it, of course, then the System32 copy is the only one on the list again. Confusing, right? Just Say No to right-click/install.
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