Deeproot Plant Base includes a free screen saver
module. It is a separate program which is placed in your Windows
System Directory and behaves like most screen savers, in that
it is enabled and configured from the Windows Control Panel. When
your PC is idle it displays a slide-show of images randomly selected
from the Plant Base picture libraries.
The screen saver module is free and unrestricted.
If you have obtained a trial copy of Plant Base but decided not
purchase it, you are welcome to continue use of the screen saver
indefinitely. There are no nag screens, adverts or any registration
requirement. Obviously you must leave the Plant Base database
files, which contain the images, on your disk.
We also supply a "screen saver only"
installation on the CD, which has its own special cut-down database
containing 50 high quality plant pictures. There's no catch, we
just hope you like it and perhaps one day you might wish to purchase
the full Plant Base product.
The installation file may also be downloaded
from here.
Go to the Control Panel's Display icon and select
the Screen saver tab (or for XP users, select "Appearance
and Themes", then "Choose a screen saver"). Now
select "PlantBaseSS" from the list.
The Settings button will display a dialog screen
allowing some simple configuration options:
- specify the database - the default is normally
correct.
- display the plant's name with its picture
- switch transition effects on or off
- mimimize disk usage - after 15 minutes the
screen saver program stops reading the hard-disk and only uses
images already stored in RAM.
- adjust the speed at which the pictures change
