Use Picasa Photos As Your Computer Screensaver

Your screensaver can display many different types of images, but if you want to personalize it a bit, you can use your Flickr or Picasa albums as your computer screensaver. Flickr offers an RSS feed with photos, but to integrate it with Windows, you need a suitable screensaver that uses data from an RSS feed. For this, you can use Google Photos Screensaver, which you can download with Picasa.

This Is The Way……..

While installing Picasa, remember to deactivate all unnecessary settings or the viewer if you do not want to use it. After the installation, navigate to C:\windows\system32 and look for the file "gphotos.scr".

Create a backup copy of this file in another location. If you do not want to use Picasa, you can uninstall the program. Once you're done, copy the backup file "gphotos.scr" to the system folder once more.

To set up the screensaver, click on Appearance and Personalization in the control panel and then on Change screensaver in the Personalization section. Now, select Google screensaver from the drop-down box and click on Settings.

Here, click on the Configure button to activate sources for the screensaver, including "Picasa", "Photos from specific folders on my computer", or "Photos from public websites".

You can specify the sources for each option with the Configure button. To set your Flickr images, click on Photos from public websites and then on Configure. Now enter the URL for the Flickr feed in the Other photo feed sources box and click on Add.

After a short test, the entry will appear in the list and inform you of whether it can access Flickr. You can add and activate several feeds to add different sources. Confirm the changes with OK. Lastly, set the visual effects, the time each image should be displayed and choose to display captions. Close the dialogue by clicking on the OK button.

Keep In Mind…………………

 The feeds load only 20 images and stores them temporarily on your machine. To get new images again, you must empty the Cache folder in your user profile regularly.

To do this, open the user profile in Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder "AppData\Local\ Google\GBScreensaver\imgcache". Delete the existing JPG files so that new ones are automatically loaded.

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