How do I display a new Wallpaper image? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Next Wallpaper Image. How do I start the screen saver now? ~Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Start Screen Saver Now. ~Or for instant privacy in the future, click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Upper Left Corner. Then the next time you want the screen saver to start immediately, you just move your mouse to the upper left corner. This feature can be a good privacy feature. For example, if you are working on confidential material on your computer, and a then a visitor arrives, you can simply move your mouse to the upper left corner, and the screen saver will start. How do I use the multiple Collection Package I have? Here's specific step by step instructions about how to use a Collection Package you own. Does the calendar work with all Windows operating systems? The calendar is not supported under Vista nor 7. How do I display the calendar? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Select Show Desktop Calendar and the calendar will appear. How do I change the color, font and size for the calendar? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. At the bottom left hand side of Image Manager, check Show Desktop Calendar. To the right of that text is the color box. Click on the color box and you can select whichever color, font and size you want. Click OK. The desktop calendar is transparent. How do I hide the calendar? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Show Desktop Calendar and check mark will disappear, and the calendar will disappear. How do I move the desktop calendar? Just left mouse click and hold the button down, dragging the calendar to where you want it and then release the mouse button. How do I see another month other than the current month on the calendar? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Select Show Desktop Calendar and the calendar will appear. Click on the little backward or forward arrow at the top to move from month to month. There is also a drop down menu of months in the current year, if you left click on the name of the month at the top of the calendar. How do I get my desktop icons to disappear? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Select Hide Desktop Icons. How do I get my desktop icons to appear again? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Select Hide Desktop Icons and it becomes unselected. How do I update my software code? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Update Screen Saver Software. You will be taken to the web page of software updates and samplers. Download what you need. There is no charge for updating your software code. How do I get to the Second Nature Online Store? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Online Screen Saver Store. Or you may visit http://www.secondnature.com What does the Upper Left Hot Corner do? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on “Upper Left Hot Corner” then you make that corner of the computer monitor be a “hot” spot for the screen saver to start. This is useful for the sake of privacy. For example, if you’re working on a sensitive document, you can just move your mouse into the upper left hand corner and the screen saver will start. How do I enable the screen saver? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Check Enable Screen Saver. How do I disable the screen saver? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Uncheck Enable Screen Saver. How do I select how soon before the screen saver starts and what the cycle time is? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Select Wait and then select the time from the drop down menu. Select Cycle and then select the interval you want. How do I find out what version I am running? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on About. Our newest version is 4.12. If you don’t have the newest version, click on Update Screen Saver Software to download the newest code. How do I select special screen saver effects? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Click on Special Effects. Check the effects you would like to use. You may select Preview at the bottom of the screen and preview that effect, if you’d like. Click OK. Or to preview, you may select Preview at the top of the Image Manager. Hint: After you click Preview remove your hand gently from the mouse and let the images cycle. How do I select all the special screen saver effects at once? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Click on Special Effects. Choose Select All, if you’d like to check all the special effects at once. Click OK. How do I unselect all the special screen saver effects at once? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Click on Special Effects. Choose DeSelect All, if you’d like to uncheck all the special effects at once. Click OK. How do I set how often the wallpaper changes? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Select Change Wallpaper every, then select the time interval you prefer from the drop down menu. How do I set a wallpaper image to be the same as a particular screen saver image? ~Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Right mouse click on the image. Click on Set Image as Wallpaper. ~OR Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Check Set Wallpaper to last Screen Saver Image. Then when you see a screen saver image you want as your desktop wallpaper, just move your mouse or click on a key, and that screen saver image will become your desktop wallpaper. How do I get the images to display in Random Order? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Check Display Images in Random Order. How do I get the images to display in sequence with one collection at a time? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Uncheck Display Images in Random Order. How do I elect not to show Image Captions? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Uncheck Show Image Captions. How do I get the Image Captions to display for the images? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Go the bottom left gray area. Check Show Image Captions. How do I make a collection active or inactive? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Next to each collection name is a box to check to make a collection active, or uncheck to make the collection inactive. You must have at least one collection marked as active. How do I hide an image I don’t want to display? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Right mouse click on the thumbnail image you don’t want to display, select Hide Image, and that image will be hidden. A red round symbol will appear on that thumbnail. How do I make a hidden image display again? If you change your mind later and decide to have that image display, click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Right mouse click on that thumbnail image with the red round symbol, and select Show Image. How do I find out more about an artist whose collection I have? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Right mouse click on a thumbnail image. Select Artist Information. How do I find more images like the ones I am looking at? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Right mouse click on a thumbnail image. Select See more images like this. How do I see if there’s a text file associated with an image? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Right mouse click on a thumbnail image. If there is a text file associated with this particular image, a choice of Image Information will pop up now. IF there is no text file, you will not see the Image Information option. Just a few collections have text files, such as Through the Eye of Hubble, Hubble: Mysteries Revealed, The Claude Monet Collection, The Wilderness Collection by Rodney Lough, Landscape Majesty by the Smithsonian Institution, etc. How do I create my own personal Windows screen saver collection? Click on this link for an illustrated description of how to easily create your own screen saver using bitmap and jpg images. How do I rename the personal collection I have created? Click on the Leaf icon in the system tray. Click on Image Manager. Under My Photos, select the current title for the collection. Right mouse click on the existing title. Select Rename. Type in the name you’d like the collection to have now. Click OK. Second Nature is a proud supporter of nonprofit environmental organizations and has contributed more than $2.5 million dollars to help preserve the world's natural wonders and wildlife. CUSTOMER APPLAUSE: Second Nature's customer service is quick to respond and the site is very generous both with the amount of product and the frequent sales prices and coupons they offer. - Maggy Stricker, Lyon Mountain, NY All images copyright © by respective artists and photographers. All rights reserved. You may not upload this software or images to a web site or distribute it commercially or otherwise. It is illegal to use these images on your web site and/or to post on community web sites. 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