How to Change or Disable Your Windows Vista Screen Saver

Do you grow tired of that pesky little screen saver animation starting up every time you leave your Windows Vista computer idle for more than ten minutes? Me too! With every new computer I get my hands on, whether it be a Windows XP or Windows Vista machine, I always disable the default screen saver and enable the energy-saving feature instead.

Fortunately for those of you who wondered onto this page, it's just as easy, if not more so, to adjust or even completely replace your current Windows Vista screen saver as it to disable it altogether.

To begin with, we need to be looking at our Windows Vista desktop; Just click the Show Desktop shortcut in your Quick Launch Bar to quickly return to your desktop.

Next up, we click the right mouse button anywhere on the desktop to bring up a menu with a host of options. Select the option at the bottom of the menu list called Properties.

This will bring you to the Personalization control panel whereby you can customize a great number of Windows Vista features. However, for this particular tutorial, we will be focusing entirely on the screen saver section. Click on the third option down, Screen Saver in order to be taken to the screen saver options interface, obviously.

Upon clicking the link, you should be looking at the Screen Saver Settings screen. Here you have a number of options of how you can personalize your Windows Vista screen saver, change it to something more personal, or even disable it; You can accomplish virtually all of these options simply by clicking the screen saver drop-down box - which is what we need to do next.

You will notice that even with a fresh installation of Windows Vista, Microsoft was very generous with the number of screen savers they provided; There's a good chance you will find a screen saver style that will suit your tastes. You can go ahead and select one from the list in order to preview it and possibly even take it from a spin. At the top of the list is the option to disable it, simply click (None) to completely disable screen savers altogether.

While I may not be one for screen savers, I still encourage you to check out what Windows Vista has on offer. You may just find one that you really take a liking to.