Playful Elephants Screensaver 2.0

Let me start off by asking you a question: out of all the animals in the animal kingdom, which is your favorite? If you answered “you know I like elephants”, let me ask you another question: would you like to see images of elephants on your desktop when your computer goes idle? If you answered “you know that’s right”, then I present to you a free Windows screensaver that displays nothing but images of elephants.

The screensaver I am talking about is the aptly named Playful Elephants Screensaver. It is a slideshow screensaver that displays several images of elephants. As is the case with slideshow screensavers, this one displays an image of an elephant for a few seconds (3 seconds, that’s the default value), then uses a transition effect to move to another image, and so on and so forth.

If you are the kind of person who likes to play with the settings, here are the settings you can play with if you install Playful Elephants Screensaver on your Windows-powered computer:
- Specify for how long an image will be displayed before the screensaver moves on to the next image. You can choose one of several preset values, like 10 seconds, 1 minute, or 5 minutes.
- Select which transition effect you would like the screensaver to use.
- Adjust the speed of the transition effects.
- Choose if you want the screensaver to “Cycle through all effects”.
- Select the background color.
- Check the “Put wallpaper on desktop” option and one of the screensaver’s images will be turned into your wallpaper.

If Playful Elephants Screensaver sounds like an interesting application and you would like to get it, then go ahead and do so. Before you do that you may want to take a look at the technical details presented below:
Download – the download weighs in at 4.3MB. It should not take long to get the screensaver off the web and onto your computer.
Supported OS – at the time of writing this and according to the developer, the screensaver provides support for Windows 9x, NT, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Limitations – there are none, you can use the screensaver free of charge for as long as you want.

Pros

• Numerous transition effects
• Select which transition effects to use
• Adjust the amount of time an image will be displayed
• Freeware

Cons

• Comes bundled with AutoComplete Pro (make sure to opt out if you don’t want it).
• Redirects you to the 7art-screensavers.com site once the installation process completes. Cancel the installation and you will still be directed to the aforementioned website.
• Creates desktop shortcuts without asking (a launch screensaver shortcut and a 7 art screensaver shortcut)

Additional information on Playful Elephants Screensaver is available here.

Playful Elephants Screensaver has been reviewed by George Norman on 18 Feb 2011. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Playful Elephants Screensaver 3 out of 5 stars, naming it Very Good