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Swifty1638
03-31-2007, 05:06 PM
I'm wondering if anyone has a way to get the Aquarium screensaver off XP for me? I have XP, but for some reason I don't have that Aquarium screensaver. Just seeing if there's a way. Thanks.

-A. Swift
Matt D.
04-01-2007, 11:02 AM
What aquarium screen saver? XP doesn't come with such a thing. All screen savers are .SCR files located in c:\windows\system32 and can usually be used on any Windows computer.
Swifty1638
04-01-2007, 11:39 AM
Yea, my gf's comp has it. So do most of the comps at even best buy, running the XP. I checked in the system32 folder. It's a program called "wpgldfsh". When you go to change your screensaver, the program is called aquarium. I just tried burning the wpgldfsh to a cd, but I guess her comp won't allow it.

-A. Swift
Matt D.
04-01-2007, 04:41 PM
Just email the file to yourself. It might be an XP Home screensaver because I know it doesn't come with Professional.

EDIT - Did some quit searching, seems that this screensaver comes with Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) and will only work with MCE. There apparently is a way to make the screensaver work in other versions of Windows if you know how to use a hex editor.
Swifty1638
04-01-2007, 04:43 PM
professional is what i have too.

-A. Swift
Swifty1638
04-01-2007, 07:34 PM
I sent it to myself, and came to find that it only works with XP media edition. Fuck that. I don't see why it doesn't work with XP Professional, but whatever.

-A. Swift
Matt D.
04-01-2007, 10:16 PM
I explained why it doesn't work with anything but MCE up above. :)

That screensaver is actually licensed software. Copying it to another computer is technically illegal.
DoughtCom
04-01-2007, 11:27 PM
I explained why it doesn't work with anything but MCE up above. :)

That screensaver is actually licensed software. Copying it to another computer is technically illegal.

Laws are meant to be broken, especially for fish screen savers.
Matt D.
04-01-2007, 11:29 PM
Laws are meant to be broken, especially for fish screen savers.
The hands of guys who want aquarium screen savers were meant to be broken, too. :nope:
1ViciousGSX
04-04-2007, 08:29 PM
It comes in MS "Plus". It's an add-on. It also pulls alot of memory that you may not get back fully until you reboot.