***************************************************************** * * * Savervisor * * A Screen Saver and Wall Paper Manager * * (Version v4.1) * * Written by Mark Qian * * * ***************************************************************** Savervisor is a Screen Saver and Wall Paper Manager. It provides following functions: - It appears as an icon that allows you launch a screen saver instantly by a single click of RIGHT mouse button. Note: You have to select a saver in Savervisor's setup screen in order to have Savervisor launch when clicking at its icon with RIGHT mouse button. - It can be run in a INVISIBLE mode. With this great feature, you can just put it into Windows Startup group in Program Manager and forget it: It will take care all the management tasks while you never realize it is working for you! - It allows you specify the sensitive areas where you can click the RIGHT mouse button to launch a saver instantly. - It provide saver scheduling capability. That is, it allows you specify what saver to be activate at a specified hour through a week. It also allows you switch savers through all the savers in your Windows directory and specify switchng period. - It can be set to "Always on top" to increase your accessibility to its features. - It can display(illustrate) all the screen savers in your Windows directory in different styles(ONCE, CIRCLE, and RANDOM). - It works as the saver section of Windows Desktop allowing you select, setup, and test a screen saver from within its setup screen. - It provides a very strong wall paper management capability. First, it allows you to specify any BMP files as your Wallpaper from anywhere of your file system(including hard, network, and CD drives) in a particular hour through a week. Secondly, it allows you schedule BMP files as your Wallpaper by specifying switching period through your file system. Finally, it can "walk" you through the entire file system (including hard, network, and CD drives). That is, it displays all the BMP files in your file system one after another as wall paper - You can see exactly how the BMP file looks as a Wallpaper on your screen instead of a single BMP image(specially, when Tile function is set). You can choose from either automatic or clicking to switch images when BMP is illustrated. - It also provides some other function such as tile setting. How to use Savervisor: - There are at least three ways to use it: 1). Always running and INVISIBLE. You can set its running mode into INVISIBLE and put it into Startup group of Windows Program Manager so that Savervisor is launched automatically when you start your Windows. In this way, Savervisor will work in background - You will never see it while it is working for you: carrying out all the tasks according to you Saver schedule and Wallpaper schedule, launching savers instantly when you click the RIGHT mouse button at the area you specify. 2). Always running but visible. In this way, you can access setup screen of Savervisor by a double click at its running icon#. For easy access, you can set it ALWAYS ON TOP. 3). Use it to setup you wall paper or select a screen saver and turn it off after setup. - After Launching Savervisor from Program Manager, You will see an animation icon at the top left corner of your screen if it is set to visible mode. Note: But you will see nothing if it is set to INVISIBLE mode. In this case, You can launch Savervisor one more time if you like to bring up its setup screen in order to turn it into visible mode or change setting of Savervisor. After you launch it second time, the running icon will appear so that you can double click at it to bring up the setup screen. - To access Savervisor's setup screen, you need to double click at the running icon. - You must bring up the setup screen of Savervisor in order to turn it off. - Clicking the RIGHT mouse button on the Savervisor icon or any sensitive areas that you specify will enable the current screen saver in Windows Desktop and selecting any screen saver in the setup screen of Savervisor has the some effect of selecting a saver in Windows Desktop. Registration information is available in the setup screen of this program. For more information, please contact the author in one of following ways: a). EMail the author at markqian@aol.com through Internet; b). EMail the author at screen name MarkQian through America Online; c). EMail the author at CIS-mail 76463,1251 through CompuServe; d). Mail the author at Mark Qian P.O. Box 390235, Mountain View, CA. 94039-0235 USA. Author: Mark Qian. # - "running icon" above means the icon with animation image. instead of the one in Program Manager.