Ray, It might work if you disable your anti-malware programs or tell the anti-malware program to ignore the contents of a specific folder and put all the giveaway downloaded zip files in there prior to right clicking on the downloaded zip file and selecting extract all and trying again...

L. Cleveland Major,

>" as all i did was copy the Key from the readme, and before I could paste it, that window popped up"

And as doing so, the key was copied to the clipboard, and the program monitors the clipboard knowing that the user is more likely to initiate a copy-paste operation rather than type the key in manually. When the program is ready for the key, as soon as the clipboard contents changed, it accessed the clipboard to get the registration info. It isn't all that common but several programs do this to simplify the registration/activation process.

Gary, apologies for not getting back to you sooner. My internet connection has been fluctuating in and out, and was out for most of the day yesterday, after I posted my comment above.

That really is an unusual way to do it, but if it works, I'm OK with it.

After I posted the comment I found the actual registration field by clicking on "Help". I pasted it there, and got the expected "Successful Registration" Popup window.

Played with the program extensively after that, and got some awesome results, one of which I saved as a Screensaver file. Found some hidden tools that can be used to edit specific things one can use to make a screensaver, and got results that look quite professional.

This is definitely a keeper!

drvajra, Windows can also make a kind of screen saver with your own photos.

Clay,
Can you pls tell how?
Thanks

Oh come on! What do you expect?
For developers to support a great OS released in 2001? Perhaps you should complain about the software not running in Windows 95 too!

I loved XP too ... and kept it as my 2nd OS on a dual-OS PC until 2017 when ALL the best Anti-Virus software stopped supporting XP.

Personally, I am now sweating End of Support for W7 in 2020. I dread the prospect of being stuck with W10 (the 2nd OS on my current PC).

Preston Mitchell, The quite REASONABLE expectation is IF the vendor makes a claim that it is compatible with XP and the system requirements in the giveaways information panel clearly does say it should be and it is NOT compatible then it is very relevent to warn others that might be using XP for ANY reason not to bother downloading since it won't work under XP. The DEVELOPER KNOWS THIS since the parameters defined in the executable clearly state it requires Windows NT 6.0 or higher to be able to be loaded and recognised as a valid win32 application. Keep your PC clean yourself and your LAN free form other peoples computers and you don't need no stinking 3rd party antivirus programs! Of course that requires you be wise and prudent in your everyday use of your computer and or find workarounds like my vista laptop is patched every patch tuesday... and this months cumulative patch had MANY vulnerabilites allegedly fixed... I firmly believe the axiom "Don't believe the hype" Get educated if you cannot teach yourself by other peoples mistakes. Only machine of mine that EVER got infected by real malware is from a W32/Induc infected Delphi devlopers giveaway the pattern for it had not been propgated amongst any anti-virus program at the time of the giveaway so it passed all giveawayoftheday.com tests but was still infected. I was able to manually disinfect my Delphi dev installation and developed a patch for infected programs to practically clean them so they could be safely used without risk of infecting any machine again.

Preston Mitchell,

>"Oh come on! What do you expect? For developers to support a great OS released in 2001? Perhaps you should complain about the software not running in Windows 95 too!"

That is the program developer's prerogative, but in this case, it states in the requirements on this page that Animated Screensaver Maker supports XP (If I remember correctly, it does work on XP 64-bit edition).

There is nothing wrong with a program listing OSes that are no longer being supported by Microsoft. A lot of the programs on GOTD list XP in their minimum requirements. Hard Disk Sentinel (given away here a couple days ago (24th)) lists: Windows 95/ 98/ 98 SE/ ME/ NT4/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ 2008/ Vista/ 7/ Home Server/ 2012/ 8/ 8.1/ 10

When a program lists Windows 95 as being supported, it tells me that the program is not going to be a memory hog on my more recent OS, thus, I would be even more inclined to want to use it.

In fact, there is no reason for a program to stop listing older OSes if it can still run on them. A lot of the older systems are not connected to the Internet, and are at no great risk of malware.

Imagine if car manufacturers decided that your car was too old, so it will no longer start ... no more historic car shows. Same if your house is too old, you have to buy a new one. Worse still, Europe's historic building are too old. The will have to be replaced with newer ones.

Don't play into everything that Microsoft wants you to do.

TK, Fine, I totally agree with your assessment.

You are correct IF the current XP user is an IT expert who understands how to securely maintain XP in the modern cyber world. BUT FOR 95% of the home users who visit GOTD, using XP is a recipe for disaster (unless they maintain the XP PC as a 'standalone' unconnected to a network).

I wrote my opinion from the perspective of a home user, not IT pro. It would be IRRESPONSIBLE to offer 'accurate' info, such as your comment, to an audience that couldn't effectively implement it. In such a situation, your accurate info becomes BAD advice.

As for me, the easiest solution for safely using XP is to install XP in a VM within a modern Windows OS ... and maintain a secure back-up in an external HD. I am sure I don't need to explain more about that approach.

Preston Mitchell, the advice to get educated if one cannot teach ones self from other peoples mistakes is not IRRSPONSIBLE it is IREESPONSIBLE to believe MIcrosofts security claims when they KNOW that all their consumer and business grade operating systems have known to them secutity vulnerabilities that they choose not to fix until they are forced to do so by 3rd parties threatened disclosure as they discover the vulnerabilities. It is IRRESPONSIBLE to not tell people (Home users Not IT Pro) to get educated about best practice computer use and blindly trust Microsofts claims and 3rd party security software claims. The only safe way to use any version of Microsoft WIndows is not connected to a network. And certainly never connected to the Internet directly. But that is not practical. While I do have a couple of functioning XP systems and one working XP virtual machine to use with products that only function in IE 6 with ActiveX controls I would never advocate using them online unless I had to not for security concerns but for functionality or lack thereof due to most online services completely dropping any form of support for such old technology. I do not see at anypoint in my comment extolling any virtues of XP or any non-supported Windows operating systems as provided by Microsoft so do not see anyhting in my comment that was irresponsible advice to those who took it on board and embraced it. MY comment was purely to do with trades description type right and wrong if a giveaway calims it supports an operating system then it should and the developer knows before you if they have configured the executables to require specific versions of Windows or not so we should not see claims of supporting Windows 95/98/98 SE/ME or NT 4.0 or WIndows 2000 of Windows XP when it requires by build design a newer version of windows. Remember we have had recently programs claiming susch support... but not offering it reality. Maybe at one time they did offer that support but their dev choices may have changed their programs compatability requirements and no one told their marketing department to update the website and documentation.

Sorry, just found the key, which is in the document that comes within the zip file