Using Windows 98 screensavers in Windows 10

Hello!

If this has been asked before, please point me to the relevant thread. I liked the screensavers of Windows 98 Plus!, such as Underwater and World Traveler. I followed this Guide and managed to make most of them work, but not World Traveler and a couple others. I guess they need some missing DirectX files and as a result they just show a black screen. If anyone can help me, please do.

Thank you in advance!

Tested:
I got travel.scr working from Win ME on Win10, 1809.
Got all needed dlls following the instructions.





Without any or both WL32DLL.DLL and WILDLB32.DLL I had a black screen.

Do you have all dlls? For other screensavers you might need other dlls; but no dependencies seen via PE CFF explorer.

spapakons said:

I managed to make it work, but the screensaver files (and the DLL mentioned) must be in another folder, running it directly from c:\windows\system32 displays a black screen. To make it work, you browse to that folder right-click on the SCR file and select Install. The screensaver selection window will popup, just press OK and do not touch anything. If you open the screensaver selection window and attempt to manually select the screensaver, you will get a black screen. So not exactly the solution I was hoping for, but at least it works! Thank you!

OK, it works like that then...
I wonder if install copies them to syswow64.

Keep in mind that system32 is not ideal for those old files under x64 OS.
You should place the Win98 stuff under syswow64 instead of system32.

If all is placed in a separate folder I guess you shouldn't run into issues.
The black screen probably means it doesn't recognize / see the dll, in this case it might had to do with no "install" yet or because 32bit items are placed under system32.