TO WHAT PURPOSE IS A SCREEN SAVER ?

TO WHAT PURPOSE IS A SCREEN SAVER ???

[IN PRAISE OF MICROSOFT BLANK SCREEN]

Everywhere you see them, scrolling their identity across briefly abandoned PC screens in homes, shops & offices. They range from the standard scrolling 2D & 3D images, to elaborate slabs of animation & sound promoting some pop group !!

But to what purpose? ... Originally, they were invented to overcome that problem of the menu being burnt into the screen, which anyone who used PCs prior to the late 1980s would know about, only all too well. But with modern PC screens, this should no longer be a problem. Yet the screen-saver persists.

Why? ... Well, screen savers in all their variety, primarily exist to prove the intellect & ingenuity of those who design them. Secondarily, they exist to promote some sort of product: most commonly a music group, movie or tv series. ... While the screen savers may become very elaborate indeed, often the simpler forms are the more effective, if the basic design is well thought out: the Microsoft 3D Pipes is a good example [which I do admit to having used ... & to having watched for up to 5 minutes at a time].

But what is really there for the user & chooser of the screen saver? ... Generally speaking, this creature does not much get to see the result [unless they are perfidiously idle & lack imagination !!] and anyway, it may not be wise to advertise the appalling transient taste one may have in artificially created banal pop groups.

Which brings me to "MICROSOFT BLANK SCREEN". ... This is the screen saver which I now use, and it is simplicity & effectiveness itself. What happens, as you know doubt have guessed, is that the screen simply goes the same colour that I have used for the background in this htm. No noise, no fuss; and the screen is protected from any possible burning in of words & images !! Of course, you KNOW the PC is still ON, due to those cheerful, exuberant & trojanic little indicator lights.

Why not try "MICROSOFT BLANK SCREEN" today !! Probably, it is the most sensible & practical idea ever to come out of Microsoft.

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