Who here uses Windows?

....and keeps that "starfield simulation" screensaver just because it's Trek-y?

o/ I do

 

I didn't realize people still used screensavers. You're better off having your monitor go to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity than running a screensaver.

 

Use windows? Every day. They're my favorite way of looking out of my house.

 

^ This. Only I set mine for 10 minutes.

 

I remember back in the 1990s I was a kid and thought screensavers were cool and new, I always enjoyed that starfield one. It reminded me of the closing credits of the modern Trek shows.

What? Back then TNG, DS9 and Voyager were modern Trek.

 

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Pretty much this. Now it's sleep mode.

 

yeah, but a black screen isn't Trek-y.

I guess all of you aren't really Trek fans as you claim.

Posers.

 

I actually had the Star Trek screensavers from AfterDark. My favorites were the medical display and the Scotty in the Jeffries tube display.

 

My computer rarely gets a chance to use a screensaver. Simple because when I'm using it, it doesn't have a chance to come up. If I'm not using I'll put it into sleep mode at the very least.

 

I don't use a screensaver as such - though I used to use the starfield one for just the reason you say. But what I do, since I still need a regular fix, is to make a slide show of Star Trek titles from screenshots and play that when I have music going (which prevents hibernation) - or just want more Star Trek around.

ME

 

Used it way back when. But by now I use neither Windows nor screen savers.

 

Only my very first computer from 2001--which I use solely as a non-internet accessible word processor in my bedroom--still has the "flying through space" screensaver. I'll use it whenever I'm writing a Trek fanfic.

All of my screensavers are set to kick in after three minutes of inactivity, but more often than not I tend to just shut my computer down whenever I'm not using it. The days when I have a computer always on or even just in sleep mode ended a few years ago for me...

 

I've got the picture of the JJPrise falling to earth as my desktop picture, had it for ages. Windows 8 is shit. Windows 7 all the way.

 

Damn beat me to it!

 

Windows 7 at work, XP running on my old Dell clunker desktop, Vista on our old Dell notebook, everything else that we use daily at home is an Apple product of some kind.

 

Ships in the JJ Abrams Trek universe

 

Actually, displays on TNG and beyond are off when not in use. Our solution is CANON, whereas your precious screensaver isn't.

 

I remember how happy I was when I first saw that star trekky screensaver.. a hundred hundred years ago

Also, KingDaniel