Screen Saver
Center for New Deal Studies

This screen saver displays photographs from the archives of the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The screen saver is designed for Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000. It will not work with computers running the Macintosh or Linux operating systems.

Installation instructions:

1 Choose which version you want to download. One version is for screens with video resolutions of 1024x768 pixels, (XGA) or 800x600 pixels (SVGA) and the other is for screens with resolutions of 640x480 (VGA). Click here (750 K bytes) to download the XGA/SVGA version. Click here (450 K bytes) to download the version for VGA. The file that will be downloaded to your local hard drive, ru-xga.exe or ru-vga.exe, is a compressed, self-extracting executable file that will place the Center for New Deal Studies screen saver into your Windows\System folder. (Be sure to remember or write down the name of the folder into which the file is downloaded.)

If you are not sure of your computer's video resolution, you can find out by doing the following: (a) position the mouse pointer over an empty area of the Windows desktop, (b) click the right mouse button, (c) a small menu should be displayed on your screen, (d) choose "Properties" from the small menu, (e) a dialog box with tabs across its top should then appear on your screen, (f) click the tab labeled "Settings", (g) near the lower right corner of the dialog box you should see a panel labeled "Screen area". At the bottom of the panel, the size of your screen will be displayed in units of pixels, such as "1024 x 768 pixels". That's your video resolution.

2 After downloading ru-xga.exe or ru-vga.exe, navigate to it in the Windows Explorer (or My Computer) and double-click on it in order to launch it. Then confirm that you want the New Deal Studies screen saver installed in your Window\System folder by clicking "Yes".

3 To choose the NDS screen saver as your screen saver, right click your mouse with the arrow anywhere over the Windows desktop and choose Properties (or, open the Windows Control Panel and choose Display). When the Display properties dialog box is open, click the "Screensaver" tab and select the New Deal saver as your screen saver. All done!