In our opinion the best free screensaver is just the screen powering down.

A screensaver is a type of computer program initially designed to prevent damage to CRT and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use. The screen saver starts automatically if your computer is idle for a specified amount of time.

In Windows XP and Vista, you can configure a screensaver easily:

For XP:
- Click Start, then click Settings and go to Control Panel.
- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Display icon.
- This brings up the Display Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu.

For Vista:
- Click Start and go to Control Panel. When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Personalization icon.
- This brings up the Personalization Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu.

Next steps for both XP and Vista:
- Determine how many minutes you want the system to be idle before Windows launches the screensaver, and enter that amount of time in the box provided.
- You can click on Preview to see what it will look like in full-screen use. If you want to change the settings, click Settings. Depending on the screensaver, this window can have one or more options that you can modify.
- Once you have finished changing the settings, click OK. You can also use the screensaver for security by checking the "Password protected" box. Click OK again and your screensaver is set to go!

- Click the Windows "Start" button and click the "Control Panel."
- Click on "Programs" in the Control Panel and then click on "Programs and Features." You will see a list of screensavers installed on your computer.
- Scroll through and click the screensaver you want to delete. Click "Uninstall" to remove it from your computer. 

Also you can delete the screensavers manually from the folders:

-for XP and Vista 32 go to C:/Windows/System32

-for Windows Vista 64 go to C:/Windows/SysWow64

and

-for all users C:\Program Files\NewFreeScreensavers

Note that the screensavers that come with Windows, however, can't be removed.

If you need to protect your files when you walk away from your computer, you can set up a screensaver password, which locks your computer when the screensaver is on. The screen saver password is the same password that you use when logging on to Windows.

If you don’t have a Windows password, first it is necessary to create a password for Windows .

After that you can proceed to setting a password:
1. Open Screen Saver Settings by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, clicking Personalization, and then clicking ScreenSaver.
If you are using an older version of Windows you will click Start, point to Settings and then click on Control Panel.
If your Control Panel is in Category View, click the option in the task pane that says Switch to Classic View.
Double click Display. The Display Properties dialog box will open.
2. Click on the ScreenSaver tab. Under ScreenSaver, click on your choice of screen saver.
3. Select the On resume, Password Protection or On resume, Display Welcome Screen, require logon check box, set a time after which to start the screen saver, and then click Apply and OK. (Choose a wait time that’s not long enough for an unauthorized person to use your computer, but not so short that if you are idle for a moment, the screen saver locks your computer.)

First of all, it is necessary to create a special folder with the pictures/photos which you want to see in your screensaver.

For XP:
- Click Start, then click Settings and go to Control Panel.
- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Display icon. This brings up the Display Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu. In your case it is called My Picture Slideshow.

For Vista:
- Click Start and go to Control Panel.
- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Personalization icon. This brings up the Personalization Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu. It is called Photos.

Next steps both for XP and Vista:
- To change the settings, click Settings.
- Once you have finished changing the settings, click OK.

- Go to c:/windows/system32.
- Sometimes windows is installed other drive than c:, use it accordingly.
- If you know the name of the screensaver you want to invoke, just scroll to its name. Or sort the files by type. You need filetypr “.scr”.
- Select a screensaver for the list, right-click on a screensaver file and choose “Test” to be sure that it is the one you want to use.
- Right-click on the screensaver you want to use, point to “Send to” and click on “Desktop”. This will create a desktop shortcut of the screensaver.

Distributed Computing is an increasingly popular application for screensavers to activate a useful background task and participate in so called distributed computing applications, like different science projects. This is convenient because these applications only use resources when the computer would be otherwise idle. This form of screensaver takes advantage of
your computer’s inactivity to process data from another source.

Nowadays there are many websites dedicated to distributed computing online projects. For example here http://distributedcomputing.info/you may find information about active and upcoming projects One of such projects is SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence) SETI@home http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ project, developed to search for extra-terrestrial radio signals.

This screensaver displays a graph of the radio spectrum and processes radio signal information received from SETI servers. The screensaver sends back results on the data processed. By using so many computers, SETI greatly reduces the amount of time it takes to process
all the signals received from its radio telescope.

To see a screensaver from SETI, please visit: http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/screensaver/index.html or my website home page http://www.newfreescreensavers.com/

Cosmic noise, which is written in the Arecibo radio telescope is divided into small units and sent to computers of participants to search their signals with special characteristics - those that may have an artificial extraterrestrial origin.
If the project will detect the signal, participants whose computers were engaged in the processing units containing a signal, will be entered the list of sponsors for all subsequent scientific publications.
If you want to help to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, you may join this project and have fun!

In Windows XP and Vista, you can mute a screensaver easily:
For XP:
- Click Start, then click Settings and go to Control Panel.
- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Display icon. This brings up the Display Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu.
For Vista:
- Click Start and go to Control Panel
- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Personalization icon. This brings up the Personalization Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu
Next steps both for XP and Vista:
- To change the Sound option (or other settings), click Settings. Depending on the screensaver, this window can have one or more options that you can modify.
- Select a Mute option to turn off the sound of a screensaver you have selected.
- Once you have finished changing the settings, click OK.

For XP:
- Click Start, then click Settings and go to Control Panel.
- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Display icon. This brings up the Display Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu.

For Vista:
- Click Start and go to Control Panel
- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Personalization icon. This brings up the Personalization Properties window.
- Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu

Next steps:

To change the power plan settings,
- click Change power settings;
- Select a power plan (we recommend you High Performance);
- Click Change plan settings
- Choose the sleep and display settings that you want your computer to use (For example, if you select to turn of the display in 20 minutes, it means that you screensaver will be on within these period and since the start time)
- Once you have finished changing the settings, click Save changes

- Open Safari browser on iPad

- Visit www.newfreescreensavers.com , click wallpapers in the header of the main page or go directly to wwww.newfreescreensavers.com/wallpapers

- Select a wallpaper and click iPad under the wallpaper you have selected

- When the selected picture has fully loaded, keep your finger on it for a few seconds.

- In the open menu select “Save picture” and it will be saved in “Photos” folder.

After that go to Settings of your iPad, select “Brightness and Wallpaper” , select "Saves photos",

select a picture your have downloaded from www.newfreescreensavers.com

and choose a screen you need of both screens, “Set Lock Screen”, “Set Home Screen”, “Set Both”.

A selected image should now appear as your iPad desktop wallpaper.

1) It is necessary to create a special folder and save the picture (your wallpaper) to that folder. You may use “My pictures” folder, but do not forget to delete other files from it, otherwise they will be shown as a screensaver too.
2) Open the “Control Panel” by clicking on “Start”.
3) Next step depends on your Operation system. If you use XP, click Display Properties. If you use Vista, click Personalization icon.
4) Select the Screensaver tab, and select the screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu. In our case it is called My Pictures Slideshow or Photos or it may have a name you gave to it.
5) After that click Settings and click OK to confirm your changes.

All wallpapers on Newfreescreensavers.com are available in four formats 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1680×1050, 1920×1080 for Windows, Mac and iPad.

-To download a wallpaper you like select PC, Mac or iPad button and click on it. The Downloading will start.

For PC:

- Once the downloading finished, the selected wallpaper should automatically appear as your desktop wallpaper!

For Mac:

-Once the downloading finished, it is necessary to select a picture of an appropriate resolution, then open it and after that select “Set as a background or wallpaper” in a pull-down menu window.

For iPad:

Please read instruction How to download a wallpaper from www.newfreescreensavers.com and install it to iPad.

How to delete animated wallpaper?

- Click the Windows "Start" button and click the "Control Panel."

- Click on "Programs" in the Control Panel and then click on "Programs and Features." 

  You will see a list of software (including animated wallpapers)  installed on your computer.

- Scroll through and click the wallpaper you want to delete (the name will look like, for example NewFreeScreensaver nfsAbstractionAW).

  Click "Uninstall" to remove it from your computer.

To download a wallpaper from www.newfreescreensavers.com

- Click Animated button and select a wallpaper.

- Click  Download Win Animated wallpaper and the downloading will start.

- Once the downloading finished, the selected wallpaper should automatically appear as desktop wallpaper.

Note: To exit from the wallpaper or change the settings, click our animated wallpaper icon on the low panel and click Exit or settings in the pop up window.

To uninstall NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar from Firefox follow the steps:

- go to Start -> All Programs -> Firefox to launch the browser

- go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions -> select NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar and press the button Uninstall

-  restart Firefox.

For Google Chrome do the following steps:

- launch Google Chrome;

- click Settings in the upper right hand corner of the browser;

- go to Options → Extentions →  NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar → Uncheck "Enabled"/Press Remove;

- restart Google Chrome

To uninstall NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar from Internet Explorer follow the steps:
- go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features ("Add or Remove Programs" in windows XP) -> select NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar from the list and press the button Uninstall ("Change/Remove" in windows XP)

- restart your computer.

 Please note: In case  NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar is installed in several browsers on your PC and you want to uninstall it from all of them, please, follow the instructions for each particular browser. Uninstalling the Toolbar from Internet Explorer will NOT automatically remove it from other internet browsers on your PC.

To disable NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar from Internet Explorer follow the steps:

- go to Start -> All Programs -> Internet Explorer to launch the browser
- go to Tools -> Manage add-ons -> Toolbars and Extensions section -> select NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar and press the button Disable
- restart Internet Explorer.

To disable NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar from Firefox follow the steps:

- go to Start -> All Programs -> Firefox to launch the browser
- go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions -> select NewFreeScreensavers Toolbar and press the button Disable.

If you use Firefox , do the following steps:

- launch Firefox;

- go to Tools -> Options -> Main tab -> Home Page section and change the home page name;

- restart Firefox.

For Internet Explorer do the following steps:

- launch Internet Explorer;

- go to Tools -> Internet Options -> General tab-> Home Page section and change the home page name;

- restart IE.

For Google Chrome do the following steps:

- launch Google Chrome;

- click Settings in the upper right hand corner of the browser;

- go to Options -> Basics tab -> Home Page section -> type in home page name;

- restart Google Chrome.

- Open any NewFreeScreensavers newsletter which you have received.

- Click the link "unsubscribe now" at the bottom of the message.

To submit a support request, to submit a bug, send an offer or just share your ideas, please send an email to is@newfreescreensavers.com

All screensavers and wallpapers on our website are FREE because:

Now we get rewards from installing optional toolbar as well as we get profit from advertising. With this money we can offer free software as well as maintain a small team of employees developing software and providing technical support.

The following modifications are made during the installation process by default:

- The default screensaver location is C:Program FilesNewFreeScreensavers (XP and Vista 32: C:/Windows/System32 and Windows Vista 64 : C:/Windows/SysWow64);

- NewFreeScreensavers toolbar is added to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome;

- The default homepage and search engine are changed for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome;

- Software provided by SweetLabs Inc. (OpenCandy®) is installed.

All modifications during the installation process are made only with the consent of the end user. The user can cancel the installation of these modifications by unmarking them during installation process.