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The old XScreenSaver codes for windows soon became obsolete in Windows 10. However the original developer (Katayama Hirofumi) made some adjustments so that it will also work in Windows 10 and provided his port in github. There is a downside in windows 10 though:

• As in the old windows, there is no multi-screensaver
• It seems that there are limited number (say n) of .scr files that will be installed in the systems directory (even if you put greater than n number of .scr files, the system will only look at the first n file ordered by name).

To deal with this issue for windows 10, I modified multiscr so that it would work. Now multiscr will use a user-preferred directory to switch through the different .scr.

I provide the binary of this code in a zip file here.

To install decompress and (make sure you have write access to windows directories):

• put multiscr.scr and multiscr.ini in %windir%/system32 (usually C:\Windows\System32)
• edit multiscr.ini so that the second line (which in the zip is C:\my_scr\) shows the location (it should end with a “\”) where .scr files you want multiscr to use.

If you want to know more about multiscr you may also want to read my original post about it!