Does the screen saver saves some power or does it is named beacause it gives your personall stuff the privacy, if you are not there on the computer for a certain period ?
2006-09-01 10:18:36 · 8 answers · asked by Corona 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
It's so whatever image is on your screen doesn't burn in permanently.
2006-09-01 10:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by ndtaya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computer displays used to have the same problems that TVs did. If you have the same image on the screen for too long, the image would "burn" itself into the screen so that it always looks like the ghost of that image was there. Displays are no longer like this, but the term "screen saver" was thought up when this was still the case -- it saved the screen by changing up the display image every once in a while (or blanking it out entirely).
2006-09-01 10:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the first computer game, Pong, came out, people would play this on their TV for hours. After a while, people discovered that certain areas of the screen were degraded due to a constant electron stream keeping these areas on/aglow constantly. This same problem was observed with computer CRT monitors because users would leave their computer on while they went off to do something else. Thus, screen savers were devised to begin after a few minutes to prevent this degradation.
2006-09-01 11:39:33 · answer #3 · answered by williamh772 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Screen savers were important back before the introduction of LCD. If you left a screen on with no screen saver you would get what's called burn in. Burn in creates a shadowed image that never goes away (even when the monitor is off and unplugged) In essence it ruens the monitor. Screen savers were made to "save" your screen from burn in. As operating systems advanced, you were later ble to lock on screen saver and add privacy to it as well (XP under desktop properties, screen saver tab, check "on resume password protect).
2006-09-01 10:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Screen savers orginally saved the pixels on the screen from degrading. If you have the same picture, for example, on your screen for an extended period of time, it will "burn into" your screen and you'll always see a shadow of the image. I have heard that technology has made improvements in this, but we love our screen savers, don't we?
2006-09-01 10:23:35 · answer #5 · answered by cattail_pond 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It saves the screen. By moving images around, one image doesn't get burnt onto the screen.
2006-09-01 10:58:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly, though I've never seen it happen, if you leave the same picture on your screen for an extended period of time, it will screw up your monitor.
2006-09-01 10:21:35 · answer #7 · answered by Frylock_80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for privacy!!!!!!!
2006-09-01 10:20:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋