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
