How To Prepare For Halloween Using Free Screensavers?

By Author: Irina Sidorova
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Halloween, one of the most popular holidays in USA and Europe, is celebrated October 31. Usually everybody starts preparing for it long before this date: buy costumes, decorate the houses. Newfreescreensavers.com, a website with a large collection of free screensavers and wallpapers, has also prepared for the holiday and share its ideas on how to prepare for Halloween.

Halloween screensavers and wallpapers can easily change the ordinary look of the place and make it unique for the holiday, as all screensavers for Halloween feature main symbols of the holiday and will decorate the idle monitors with ghosts, black cats, Halloween witches, spiders and of course pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns.

So, how to prepare for Halloween using free screensavers?

First of all it is necessary to select and download Halloween screensavers ...
... you like. Then install them on a computer. Halloween screensavers are available for both Windows and Mac.

For XP:

- Click Start, then click Settings and go to Control Panel.

- When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Display icon.

- This brings up the Display Properties window.

- Select the Screensaver tab, and select a Halloween screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu.

For Vista:

- Click Start and go to Control Panel. When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on the Personalization icon.

- This brings up the Personalization Properties window.

- Select the Screensaver tab, and select a Halloween screensaver you want to use from the drop-down menu.

Next steps for both XP and Vista:

- Determine how many minutes you want the system to be idle before Windows launches the screensaver, and enter that amount of time in the box provided.

- You can click on Preview to see what it will look like in full-screen use. If you want to change the settings, click Settings. Depending on a Halloween screensaver , this window can have one or more options that you can modify.

- Once you have finished changing the settings, click OK. You can also use a Halloween screensaver for security by checking the "Password protected" box. Click OK again and your screensaver is set to go!