Thread: screen saver
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Old 08-09-2007   #5 (permalink)
Ken Blake, MVP
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Re: screen saver

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:54:14 +0100, "Jon"
<Email_Address@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote:

> I'm not a hardware expert, but as I understand it screensavers have long
> since ceased to do squat for saving the screen.




True.



> They're there just as an
> attractive artistic alternative to staring at a black screen, I would
> suppose.



Not quite. The main value of a screensaver these days is so someone in
an office can leave his desk without leaving what he was doing visible
to passers-by.

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