WinZIP or other archiving software should be able to extract the files from the CABS files.ġa) You can try creating a "Themes" folder under C:/Windows/system32/ if you don't want to chance overriding some of the files in there, or just want to keep them separate, but I'm not certain Windows will recognize the screensavers if you do that.
WINDOWS XP SCREENSAVERS ZIP FILE
Myself, I wanted everything related to the themes, so I just copied all the files in the CABS from _50 to _68 and put them in one ZIP file for transfer to my XP machine. (note: I know this is what the Microsoft site says the files are located at, but in my system I found the SCRs in _69.cab and the DLLs in _61.cab through _64.cab, so YMMV on which CAB they're actually in on your system). The screensavers themselves are mostly located in Win98_63.cab, but I think you may need some of the DLL libaries on Win98_52.cab-Win98_58.cab for them to work, as well.
WINDOWS XP SCREENSAVERS FULL
The full themes, including the screensavers, start in the Win98_50.cab file and go through the Win98_68.cab file. Sure enough, I found the files I needed in the CAB files in C:\Windows\win98. This was a stopper for me for a bit, until I remembered that my old Dell laptop that I now use only for travel, since its so old that its not a huge deal if it gets broken or lost, is running Win98. The nicer Win98 "Plus!" screensavers require you to have access to either a machine running Win98 that has the CAB recovery files stored on it, or have a Win98 installation or backup CD. It isn't extremely easy, but it is doable:ġ) First of all, you actually need the screensavers, obviously. However, last night I gave it another Google try, and came across the solution here and here (more discussion on the themes here). I'd pretty much accepted that they were never going to work on XP machines. The conventional wisdom was some of the old Win95/Win98 ones just weren't compatable with XP, even when run in "compatability mode".
WINDOWS XP SCREENSAVERS HOW TO
For years, I've been wondering how to get the old Windows 98 Plus! screensavers to work with XP I especially liked the "haunted house" one titled MYSTERY.SCR, but simply running it in XP results in a black screen.
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