The Awesome Creatures Screen Saver *Lite*

Copyright (c) 2001 Cottonwood Software.  All Rights Reserved

**** This is a FREE Lite version.  ****

To purchase the Gold Edition, which includes 
42 photos (and no advertising screen), go to 
http://www.AwesomeScreens.com 


All included photographs are in 800 x 600 resolution with
low compression, so they look good at any resolution.
However, we also have a higher resolution version for screens 
1024x768 and larger -- visit our web site to download it.

All photographs are copyrighted by Fany Drouin.  They 
may not be distributed or used for any commercial 
purpose without express written consent.  
(Contact Cottonwood Software for details.)

For More Great Screen Savers:  http://www.AwesomeScreens.com


******* SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ******* 

This screen saver requires:
- Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 (or greater) operating system
- Video display of 256 or more colors
- Minimum 8 Mb of RAM (16 Mb or more recommended)
- Approximately 4 Mb of free disk space
- Intel® 486 or greater processor


******* INSTALLING YOUR SCREEN SAVER ******* 

Just run the Setup.exe program and follow the instructions.



******* CUSTOMIZING YOUR SCREEN SAVER ******* 

You can easily change the appearance of your screen saver.
 
You can specify the delay between images, the transition effects,
image size, show images in black and white, whether to randomize 
the images or not, and several other features. 

You can also extract any image as your desktop wallpaper, and
even have the wallpaper cycle every hour or every day.


To change the settings:

1. Right click on an open area of your desktop, and choose 
   "Properties" from the bottom of the pop-up menu. This will 
   bring up the Display Properties dialog box.
2. Click on the "Screensaver" tab.
3. Now click on the "Settings..." button.  This will bring up 
   the screen saver's own dialog box with which you can preview 
   it, change the settings, select a photo to be wallpaper, 
   and other functions.
4. Click on the "Settings..." button on this screen saver's 
   dialog to change the Screen Saver preferences, Wallpaper 
   settings, Password, and Effects.
5. Make any changes you want, and click the "OK" button. 
6. If you're finished with the screen saver settings, click 
   on the "X" to close the screen saver dialog, then click 
   "OK" on the Display Properties dialog.


******* SETTING THE WALLPAPER ******* 

You can use any image in the screensaver appear as your desktop
wallpaper.

1. Get to the Screen Saver Settings dialog as detailed above.
2. Select the image you want to be wallpaper in the thumbnails
   list.  Scroll down to see more if necessary.
3. Either double-click on the image you want, or click the 
   "Wallpaper" button after clicking one the image once.
   
If you want to reset the wallpaper:

1. Right click on an open area of your desktop, and choose 
   "Properties" from the bottom of the pop-up menu. This will 
   bring up the Display Properties dialog box.
2. Click on the "Background" tab, and select "(none)" in the 
   Wallpaper list (or select the wallpaper you want).


******* CHANGING TO A DIFFERENT SCREEN SAVER******* 

When this screen saver is installed, it automatically becomes 
the active screen saver.  Later you may want to change to a 
different one.  This can be done through Windows' "Display 
Properties":

1. Right click on an open area of your desktop, and choose 
   "Properties" from the bottom of the pop-up menu.  This will 
   bring up the Display Properties dialog box.
2. Click on the "Screen Saver" tab.
3. Click on the drop-down box under "Screen Saver", where it 
   shows the name of the currently active screen saver.
4. Select the desired screen saver from the list.
5. Click "OK"


******* UNINSTALLING THE SCREEN SAVER******* 

After installing, you can easily remove this screen saver from 
your computer through the Add/Remove Programs icon in Control Panel.
After uninstalling, you will need to install it again (from the CD
or downloaded archive) in order to view it again, so be sure that 
you want to do this before proceeding.  If you only want to change 
screen savers temporarily, see the section above.

To remove the screen saver from your hard disk:

1. Click the Start menu
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double click Add/Remove Programs
5. Select the screen saver title from the list of installed 
   programs, then click the Add/Remove button.





License:
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Screen Saver License Agreement


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"Software"), in binary executable form on a single computer.

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