Notes for enjoying the screensaver slide show ==============================================20 Feb 2004 This disc contains Floor Anthoni's underwater images in a form suitable for showing on a computer screen of 800 by 600 pixels. the images have been saved in JPEG format with sufficient compression to get more than 10 images on a floppy disk. (about 8 per megabyte) You can copy these images to a folder on your disk or leave them to run from CD. (say, C:\scrnsvr\ ) Windows Millennium edition has an in-built slide show. To activate it, do as follows: right-click on the desktop and select properties. Then click the tab for screensaver In the drop-down list, select 'my pictures screensaver' Click the settings button to tell it where the pictures directory is. Also set the transition speed and maximum size. Exit In the screensaver menu, set the timeout value to a few minutes. Exit. The disk also contains a free screensaver, obtained from the Internet. To install it, double click on the file gPhotoShow.exe. It will guide you through the installation procedure. Once installed, activate it using the procedure above, but select gPhotoShow from the drop-down list. This screensaver also plays music, so tell it where the music is found. For this purpose, a number of classical piano pieces are included on this disk, as MIDI files. After installation, the screensaver can also be found in Start/programs/gPhotoShow/ For best viewing, you may need to pay some attention to your screen's settings (Windows 98 or more recent). Select the sRGB colour profile as follows: Right-click on your desktop and select properties. Select the tab 'settings', then click the 'advanced' button. Select the tab 'color management' Add to the profiles listed 'sRGB color profile', then select it. Reverse out of all windows and close the desktop properties. The effect of these settings are that the images look quite real, and like they were intended. Enjoy the show. Of course, you can use your knowledge to make a screensaver slideshow of your own pictures. You may notice that your screensaver cuts out before finishing. This is most likely due to the energy saving settings of your computer's screen and disk. Here is how you adjust these: Click the Start button, then Settings, then Control Panel. Double-click Power Options and adjust the settings for 'Turn off monitor' and 'Turn off hard disk'. With 6-8 seconds per picture, the slide show can easily take 2 hours to finish! ===============================