How many of you reading this have a screensaver enabled on your computer? And for those of you who do, how many use pictures and photos you have taken as the screensaver? Are you storing those photos on that computer in order to run the screensaver?
Well, did you know that you could easily store those photos on your Windows Home Server and have that computer, in fact, any of your computers, run a slideshow screensaver from your Windows Home Server?
It is actually quite nice to see some of your photos appearing when your screensaver kicks in, kind of reminds you of good times.
So, here is what you need to do in order to make this happen (for this walk through I have used Windows 7, but it is the same principle on earlier versions of Windows).
On the Desktop, right click anywhere there is free space and then click on Personalize.
Down in the bottom right hand corner you will see an icon called Screen Saver – click it.
In the Screen saver selection box, choose Photos.
By default this will use any images that are stored in the Photos folder on that computer. Because you want to use photos stored on your Windows Home Server click the Settings button.
Click the Browse button.
Click on the box at the bottom currently with Pictures in. You need to replace that with the \\servername\Photos (where \\servername is the name of your server). This will point the screensaver at the Photos shared folder on your Windows Home Server. You can use any folder you want to if you don’t want to use Photos. Click OK when you are done.
You will now see the screensaver will use picture from Photos (\\atlantis) (which is the name of the Windows Home Server I am using for this article). You can also choose the speed that the pictures change and also if you want them shuffled. Just click on Save when you are done.
All you need to do now is set the time you want to wait before the screensaver kicks in and then click on OK.
And that’s it. You can now enjoy viewing photos stored on your Windows Home Server as a screensaver.
Oh, I didn't ever realise that make your own screensavers with your favourite photos and pics is SO easy! Thanks a lot, you've opened a new way to creativity for me! 😉