Worse still, the actual selection of screensavers on Windows leaves something to be desired. All-time classics like 3D Pipes ... desktop environment in Windows 7 and 8.1, these days it hoists ...

Remember Amanda? The Windows Dancer from Windows XP Media Center 2005 ? Well if you have been missing her since the Vista days, you can now get her back in Windows 7 & Windows Vista. It should ...

Are screensavers art? If they are, one of the most iconic Windows screensavers, 3D Pipes, only existed because of an internal Windows contest to show off OpenGL support to Windows NT. Chen’s ...

The contest rules were simple: each team would create their most dazzling 3D screensaver with a company-wide vote deciding the winner. The winning screensaver would make it into the final Windows ...

Who knew a Windows screensaver could be so thrilling? And let's not forget the 3D Maze. I don't want to think about how many hours I spent watching the camera move through this strange, ...

It takes the assets (they were extracted directly from ssmaze.scr) from Windows 95's iconic 3D Maze screensaver—the one that endlessly wanders a maze of brick walls in first-person perspective ...