Google quietly released a great screensaver along with the release of the Google Pack but not all of us find it practical to install the pack espcially if we are only interested in getting certain parts of it.
We decided to release the Google Photos Screensaver as a standalone file which people can install and use in a few simple steps:
1. Download GPhotos Screensaver
2. Go to the “C:\WINDOWS\system32″ directory
3. Put GPhotos.scr into that folder.
Simple as that, now you can configure your custom photo feeds that you want to display as your screensaver.
More information on Google Photos Screensaver.
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Jigar Mehta May 9th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
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Thanks
labrat May 10th, 2007 at 12:40 am
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not a problem, hope yo u like it
Ravindra Vemuri June 21st, 2007 at 11:00 pm
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I am on Windows XP X64 edition and was not able to download the google pack
-. I was really interested in their screen saver, Thanks for the same.
Steve June 24th, 2007 at 6:06 am
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Thanks, I’ve spent heaps of time trying to get this from google to no avail. This took me about 5 seconds to get it from your site, Thanks again
Daz July 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
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Very helpful. Thanks heaps!
AN July 19th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
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Thanks!
Leah July 20th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
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How can I download Google Earth without the rest of the pack??? Same as the Google screen saver that you offered for download without the pack
Thanks.
Leah
THE ONE August 30th, 2007 at 11:13 am
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no doubt just GREAT
got the setup file
now no need to download from google pack to get just the s.saver….
jyang September 4th, 2007 at 10:00 am
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Anybody have any problems getting this to work properly?
RSS feeds don’t work, for me (the title of the feed shows up in the window, but no pics get displayed), and only Pan & Zoom is available among the effects (Wipe, Collage, and Crossfade aren’t there in the drop-down box).
Just trying to figure out if it’s purely because I have Win 2000 (the Google Pack is listed as being only for XP & Vista), or what’s going on. Thanks.
Allen Qin November 1st, 2007 at 9:32 pm
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Thanks a lot. This is quite useful, especially when I’m thinking to install this screensaver on my W2k3 machine. The pack only supports xp and vista versions.
Frans in Laos November 16th, 2007 at 11:47 am
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I currently use the Picasa2 screen saver, but that one does not do rss feeds. So I wanted to try the screen saver from Google Pack. However, my machine here is a Win2000 system, which is not supported by Pack. So I tried this standalone edition. It works just fine… except the rss feeds.
So I reverted to the Picasa2 screen saver.
But thanks anyway.
Nicholas Leong December 10th, 2007 at 4:07 am
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Superb idea! I love it! Thank you.
Vijay December 21st, 2007 at 10:27 am
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Hi,
It worked as a charm.
And the best part is that I configured my picasa web albums via feeds and it was cool.
Thank you.
Phil January 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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Thanks you really helped me on that one. Google wasn’t allowing me to download the Gphotos screensaver. I was able to get it for my PC but not on my notebook. Google wouldn’t respond to my e-mails. So thanks again . . .
Dick February 27th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
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I am running VISTA on an HP laptop – the program will NOT let me save in a windows/system32 folder. How do I get rid of the old Google Photos Screensaver and make way for the upgrade?
pc April 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
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It worked, even though I can’t install it to my vista machine via Google Pack.
Alex R April 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 am
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Thanks! I just configured a friend’s computer running W2K with the screensaver, works great!! I had no problem getting the feeds to work (right click desktop -> properties -> screensaver -> settings.)
You guys are the bomb!! Keep up the great work.
Alex R April 22nd, 2008 at 2:41 am
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(PS. I have Vista Ultimate SP1 with the Google Pack running on another box, so for those running Vista I would suggest you make sure you have SP1 installed and any other updates for the pack.)
yaniv June 12th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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thanks! works great.
Jimmy July 7th, 2008 at 8:20 am
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Hi
I am a newbie using Vista Ultimate Business edition with the latest update (as at today).
I had copied the file to System 32 folder, but could not see this on screen saver (as per my XP machine).
Did I missed a step ?
Help appreciated.
Jimmy
Alexandra September 14th, 2008 at 8:55 am
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thank you so much! it’s working!!
steve December 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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thanks for the link!
ismail sardiwalla December 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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haven’t tried it yet . will let you know soon as I do