The Visual Resources Collection located in the Department of Art has compiled a collection of images for use as a screen saver highlighting art work by the faculty and students at HWS.

The various computer platforms supported are listed below with detailed instructions on how to download and install the images and software (if required) on your computer. In outline, the process has four steps:

1. Download a single .zip file containing the compressed images onto your computer desktop.
2. Use a utility program available on your computer to extract the images into a folder containing individual image files.
3. Copy the image file folder into a specific destination on your computer.
4. Activate/configure the slide show screen saver.

Details of this process are provided below for each operating system supported at HWS. If you have questions or suggestions, contact Kathryn Vaughn at kvaughn@hws.edu or call x3483.

Windows XP, Windows ME.

Download the compressed images file located here onto your Windows desktop. Right click on the desktop file vrc-images.zip and choose Extract All from the pop-up menu. This will decompress the images into a folder named vrc-images on your desktop. Move the folder vrc-images to a more convenient location on your computer such as inside the folder My Documents or My Pictures.

Open the Start/Settings/Control Panel and double click on the Display applet. When the Display dialog opens, choose the Screen Saver tab. Select the My Pictures Slideshow from the screen saver selection box then click the Settings Button. At the Options dialog, click the Browse button and, using the directory dialog, navigate to the vrc-images folder then click OK. Back at the Display dialog, click the Preview button to preview the VRC images. Moving the mouse button or pressing any key will return you to the Display dialog box. Click Apply to accept these changes and then OK to close the Display dialog.

You can now delete the file vrc-images.zip from your desktop.

There are various screen saver settings such as image size and transition effects available through the Settings button in the Control Panel/Display applet.

Windows 98, Windows 2000.

Be aware you may need administration privileges to complete this process, depending on your computer security setup. Download the compressed images file located here and save it onto your Windows desktop, creating a file slideshow.zip. Right click on the file slideshow.zip and choose Open with WinZip from the pop-up menu. If you don't have WinZip installed, see the note below. Use the evaluation copy of the WinZip program then click the Extract Files button. At the WinZip dialog, choose a choose a convenient destination to extract the archive, such as your desktop. Be sure the choices Extract All Files and Folders and Use Folder Name are both checked. Click the Extract button which will create a folder named vrc-slideshow containing both a folder named vrc-images and the screen saver application.

Open the folder vrc-slideshow and locate the file SlideShow.scr. This .scr file is the screen saver we need to add to your system folder. Open the folder accessed through My Computer\LocalDisk(C:)\winnt\system32. Copy just the file SlideShow.scr into the folder My Computer\LocalDisk(C:)\winnt\system32. Close the folder My Computer\LocalDisk(C:)\winnt\system32.

Move the folder vrc-images into any convenient location on your computer to avoid desktop clutter.

Open the Start/Settings/Control Panel/Display applet and choose the Screen Saver tab. Select the SlideShow screen saver. Click the Preview button, then press the space bar on your keyboard and the Screen Saver will present a dialog box allowing you to select the location of your images. Use the directory dialog to locate and select the vrc-images folder and press the OK button. Back at the Display dialog box, click Apply to accept these changes and then OK to close the Display dialog.

You can select any folder containing images for your slide show by pressing the space bar when the SlideShow screen saver is active and selecting a folder where images are found.

You can now delete the vrc-slideshow folder and slideshow.zip file.

Note: You can use most any extraction program (WinZip, PKZip or PKUnzip for example) to extract the slideshow.zip file. Most archive/unzip programs have free trial versions readily found on the Internet.

Macintosh OS X Version 10.2 and up.

Download the compressed images here onto your Macintosh desktop, creating a file vrc-images.zip. Double click on the file vrc-images.zip which will start StuffIt Expander and create a folder vrc-images on your desktop. If you do not have StuffIt Expander installed, see the note below. Move the folder vrc-images into any convenient place on your computer such as the Pictures folder inside your Home directory.

Open the Apple Menu/System Preferences application and open Screen Effects. Under the Screen Saver tab, select the Pictures Folder screen saver and click the Configure button. Click Set Slide Folder and navigate using the directory dialog to select the vrc-images folder and click Open.

Back at the Configure dialog, set your desired display options and click OK. Close System Preferences. You can now delete the vrc-images.zip file on your desktop.

Note: You can use most any unzip program (Stuffit Expander, for example) to extract the vrc-images.zip file. Most archive/unzip programs have free trial versions readily found on the Internet.

Linux/KDE 3.1 and up.

Download the compressed images here onto your KDE desktop, creating a file vrc-images.zip. Right click on your desktop and from the menu create a new directory named vrc-images on your desktop. Move the file vrc-images.zip into the folder vrc-images. Right click on vrc-images.zip and select Extract here... which will start Ark and provide a dialog box with extraction options. Click on OK to use current name, Select All, and click OK. This should extract all the image files into your folder. Scroll through the contents of the vrc-images folder, locate, and delete the file vrc-images.zip. Move the folder vrc-images to a convenient location if desired.

Right click on the desktop and select Configure Desktop. At the dialog, select Screen Saver. At the KDE Control Module, select the Slide Show screen saver and click Setup. Use the browse button to locate and select the folder vrc-images. Test the screen saver using the Test button. There are various options you can set such as starting delay/password protection in the KDE Control Module which you can set now before you close the dialog.