Electronic Sheep Screensaver not working on Windows 7 x64

[roguerower]

I tried installing the electronic sheep screensaver onto my pc and it refuses to run. When i hit the configure or preview button under the screensaver window the small window will flash (not the monitor) but nothing will happen. Any hints?

 

[Stumps]

hmmm, you must be a New Zealander right?

 

[bsobel]

try copying the .scr file from syswow64\filename.scr to system32\filename.scr and see if that helps...

 

[roguerower]

nothing there to move

 

[bsobel]

No scr files exists in SysWOW64?

 

[pcgeek11]

On their web site it says to turn off UAC until they get a permenant fix for this issue. Not much of a fix if you ask me to run a screensaver.

pcgeek11

 

[zerogear]

Disabling UAC to run a screensaver is :x

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: zerogear
Disabling UAC to run a screensaver is :x

But it's electronic sheep. Totally worth it!

 

[zerogear]

I dunno about that, but it sure is pretty 🙂

 

[roguerower]

Originally posted by: bsobel
No scr files exists in SysWOW64?

There are scr files, but moving them doesn't fix anything.

I am not gonna turn off the UAC just so I can access a screensaver. Sounds idiotic to me.