Do you use a screensaver?

I didn't realize it had them until I read your post.

The age of screensavers have come and gone.

Just like we no longer have desktop Encarta with Mind Maze...

Yes and no meaning, my screen turns to black if I am away from my PC for more than 5 minutes. No animations or pictures, so it's not really a screensaver in the traditional sense. The monitor powers down after 10 minutes of non-use.

None of that animated shizzle, my screens just go black.

Nope not at all. My laptop will sleep if I leave it alone for too long, but that's about as far as I go.

It just goes black. I miss being 6 and thinking screensavers are the coolest, so I might try to think of a good one.

Not really sure that's a considered a screensaver. Well, at very least, Windows doesn't consider it to be a screensaver.

Nope, just let it go black.

I can't remember the last time that I used a screensaver. I don't think that I've used one in the last decade.

BUBBLES!!!

ahem,

bubbles, my screensaver is nothing but bubbles.

I havent used a screen saver since probably 2004.

No, because it's not 1995.

Stopped using screen savers once you could just have the monitors go into a sleep mode. Still use BonziBuddy though.

No I'm not a Crazy. However flying toasters was the shit when I was 5.

I turn off my monitors and/or close my laptop out of habit every time I get up from my chair, and I've been doing so for years and years now. I just haven't bothered to use screensavers since I was hogging my parent's old computer in middle school.

Nope, last time i had a screen saver was windows xp.

Starfield, cuz space is dope.

Nope, I turn my monitors off at night/etc.

Ever since LCDs and other monitors started booting almost instantly, screensavers became pretty redundant.

I have always used one and probably always will. I just like them. It's a nice transition to me from monitor being on to screensaver (3 mins no activity) to off (5 mins no activity).

Takes less take to 'wake' from a screensaver than it does from being off, so if I step away and catch it in the 2 minute window, it's more convenient for me.

Also there are some awesome looking screensavers out there.

My monitor turns off after about 10 minutes of not being used. The only person I know that uses one is my mom and she just has it set up to where its a slideshow of all her pictures.

Screen locks after 10 minutes and the monitor turns off. Maybe I'd still use screensavers if there were any worth using!

After Dark 2, we need you now...

I tend to take a belt and braces approach, so yes I do.

I mean for like a half hour before the computer goes to sleep. It's just a black plain screensaver.

@equitasinvictus: Oh man - Desktop Encarta...brings back some memories..

Yeah, 3D Text with the clock. I can see the time from my bed without having to find my phone, which is handy.

Also it provides just enough light at night so the room isn't pitch black.

Yes but it is after 6 hours of no use so basically it never comes on as I just put my computer to sleep if I head to work or school

LOL no. I don't even use them at work. The screen just goes off for power saving mode after some time but even my desktop at home is like 30 minutes so it never hits it.

Nah, not any more. My monitors just suspend after 20 minutes of inactive use.

My monitor turns off after 10 minutes of inactivity. Does that count?

No, screensavers just seem kind of archaic now. I guess there's some chance I might set my old Matrix screensaver back on for a bit of novelty.

Non.

Nah, it goes black after a period of inactivity though.

Nope, I just turn my monitor off.

Yes because I do it retro.

I would totally use this one if it still existed in Windows 7. I was mesmerized by it as a kid, because occasionally the text "OpenGL" would be floating in a corridor, and I thought it was some secret message that the computer was trying to get me to open some file named "GL."

I usually turn my monitor off if I'm going to be away for a while, but I have it set to use the Ribbons screen saver in Windows 7.

None right now but if I did...

I just use the bubbles screensaver simply so the computer will automatically lock and require a password when you disengage the screensaver. I just use the bubbles one.

Nope. I use my computer to much for it to show up and by the time I stop using it I just turn it off.

@equitasinvictus: So much time spent with Mind Maze...

The laptop I'm on lets me turn off the screen completely, so that's what I do. If I'm on another computer, I'll just put it to sleep. The screensaver lived and died with After Dark.

i have the blank screensaver start after 5 minutes of inactivity and my monitor turns off after an hour.

After Dark was the shit!