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First post, by 7F20

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I'm trying to get old screen savers working in Windows 10, but I ran into some problems. When the screensaver just has an *.scr file, it works fine, but I've run across some other screensavers that apparently have both an *.scr file AND a *.dll file. When I try to drop one of those in the System32 folder, Windows sees the *.scr file, but it doesn't do anything it's just a black screen.

For reference, I discovered this index of old screensavers that I was looking at. Take, for example, "Baseball," which has a baseball.dll file. http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/sc … /windows/95&98/

Is there some trick to getting these dll screensavers to work, or is there no hope on a modern windows?

Thanks

Reply 1 of 2, by AlaricD

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You may need to register the .DLL by opening an elevated command prompt, changing to the \windows\system32 directory and then issuing the command
regsvr32.exe /r dllfilename.dll

But if it's not a 32-bit .DLL, it probably won't be able to be loaded because of the removal of the 16-bit subsystem.

Reply 2 of 2, by 7F20

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AlaricD wrote on 2022-11-22, 21:24:

You may need to register the .DLL by opening an elevated command prompt, changing to the \windows\system32 directory and then issuing the command
regsvr32.exe /r dllfilename.dll

But if it's not a 32-bit .DLL, it probably won't be able to be loaded because of the removal of the 16-bit subsystem.

Ok, thanks. I'm guessing it's not going to work because they are Windows 95 era things.

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