Making a screensaver [closed]

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Closed 8 years ago.

No, I'm not talking about making a slideshow of pictures. How can I make the actual file that windows (at least windows 7) uses for screensavers?

It is a .scr format, and when I opened it in Notepad, I got a bunch of symbols, with a few words scattered throughout, but that was expected. It looks like it was made with directx, xml, and even assembly (for the shaders) based on the recognizable code there.

I just went on to a site-hosting place and made this:

Link to ribbons.scr code

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Here it is an example of how making a screensaver. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686421(v=vs.85).aspx