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I have used YoWindows successfully in XP but have now moved to Windows 7 and the screensaver is not working. I tried moving Yowindow to the screensaver folder but I need permission for this. Should this not have happened routinely during installation? Is there some way I can get my favourite screensaver back?

Hi Ken

Welcome to YoWindow


I don't understand you with

I tried moving Yowindow to the screensaver folder but I need permission for this

The file YoWindow.scr will be place in c:\windows
You can setup the screensaver within windows. The same as Windows XP

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Herman

There is no Yowindow in C:\Windows. I copied yowindow.scr from the Yowindow folder to Windows\System32 where there are other .scr files and it did appear on the list but selecting it produced a message "Invalid argument: -p". Can anyone help?

Hi Ken

search the file yowindow.scr

Right click the file
You see :
test
configure
install

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herman

I'm not sure quite what you intended me to do but on right-clicking I get these results:-

Test Invalid argument -S
Configure brings up the Yowindow screen
Install Invalid argument -p

Does this help?

Hi Ken

With right clicking the mouse you get the parameters Otherwise you have to reinstall Yowindow.
Have you administrator privileges or are you the administrator of the PC.
Run the setup as an administrator.
Download yosetup_rc.exe rightclick with the mouse and you see "run as..."
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herman

I never found what you describe but I uninstalled, downloaded the latest version and installed that and it now appears in the list of available screensavers.
Should have done that first!