- Clock 3D Screensavers
- 17 Awesome Screensavers for Windows 10
- How to Change the Windows 10 Screensaver
- 1. Wallpaper Engine
- 2. Hal 9000
- 3. Hyperspace
- 4. Underwater
- 5. Plane9
- 6. Another Matrix
- 7. Helios
- 8. IMAX Hubble 3D
- 9. Briblo
- 10. Electric Sheep
- 11. 3D Maze
- 12. NES Screen Saver
- 13. 3D Pipes
- 14. Wikipedia
- 15. Apple TV Aerial View
- 16. Astronomy Picture of the Day
- 17. Blue Screen of Death
- Countdown
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Clock 3D Screensavers
This 3D screensaver will show you time on a digital clock with digits on three changing displays in different styles.
This steam-powered clock made by one mad scientist in the 19th century will take you to a strange steam-powered world.
Download this screensaver to see not only date and time but also the local weather on it and enjoy the work of intricate gearing.
A traveler dropped his golden watch while crossing a river so now you know the time from looking at it under flowing water.
Feel the magic of a fantasy forest in this beautiful Cuckoo Clock 3D wallpaper with owls hooting and bird chirping.
Download this beautiful frozen Ice Clock with fish swimming underneath the ice in a purling perfectly animated stream.
An ancient Atlantean clock shows you the time in this moving screensaver even after centuries under water on a marvelous reef.
Behold the eternal flow of time in the ever moving zodiacal circle with this captivating analog clock running under Windows 7.
Tell the time by looking at a golden watch lost in a stream and add your own image to the pendant next to the watch.
Download this magnificent cool 3D app and enjoy the accurate operation of the neatly animated mechanism inside.
Take a close look at a medieval clock tower on your Windows 10 desktop with the view moving around in a relaxing manner.
This 4K screensaver shows you how the look of a clock in the middle of a peaceful waterfall changes throughout the day.
Get inside this ingenious alien space clock and examine all of its mysterious mechanisms right from the desktop of your PC.
Try this popular screen saver for Windows and its analog Funny Clock will take you to a beautiful and carefree world.
17 Awesome Screensavers for Windows 10
Screensavers aren’t technically necessary in today’s age of low-energy LCD, TN and IPS panels. Traditionally, screensavers were used to prevent burn-in on heat-emitting CRT monitors, which isn’t something modern monitors need to worry about.
Still, screensavers can look super-pretty, and whether you want one for nostalgic reasons or to show off the eye-popping colors of your IPS monitor, it’s up to you. You can still use screensavers in Windows 10, so we’ve gathered the best ones for you here.
How to Change the Windows 10 Screensaver
Before we start, you should know the basics of setting your Windows 10 screensaver. To do so, right-click your desktop, then click “Personalize -> Lock screen -> Screen saver settings” (at the bottom).
In the new window, you can choose your screensaver, as well as change how long it takes to appear and whether it should go to the login screen on resumption.
The install methods for screensavers you download vary, but if you download a screensaver (scr) file, you can just right-click it, then click “Install” to get it. Other screensavers come as “exe” files with their own instructions.
Now that you have the know-how, listed below are our favorite Windows 10 screensavers.
1. Wallpaper Engine
Part of the charm of screensavers is the that they’re animated. The thing is, Microsoft is slowly deprecating screensaver support, so to stay ahead of the curve, you may want to start looking for alternatives that do much the same thing.
Wallpaper Engine is a super-affordable but very comprehensive tool available on Steam that lets you create animated wallpapers on Windows 10. Alternatively, you can use one of the thousands of animated wallpapers created by other Steam users through the Steam Workshop.
Additionally, you can set the wallpapers to animate when the PC has been idle for a certain amount of time, just like a screensaver.
For more info on how to get up and running with Wallpaper Engine, see our guide.
2. Hal 9000
Looking for a screensaver that will replicate a famous cinematic experience of traveling across the galaxy? The misanthropic AI aboard the spaceship from “2001: A Space Odyssey” maybe isn’t something that everyone wants on the PC screen, but sci-fi fans may not be able to resist.
It’s beautifully designed and true to the movie, with 28 different animations across the eight different screens that the HAL computer was in charge of. It’s slick and oddly relaxing, even if you do feel like at any moment Hal 9000 may go rogue and turn on you at any moment.
3. Hyperspace
Taken from the collection of Really Slick Screensavers (you can download them all in one pack if you wish), Hyperspace is unquestionably one of the best.
It takes you on a rapidly accelerating journey through the cosmos where you fly through starfields that eventually morph into an impressive liquid landscape of neon pinks, blues and purples. It reminds us a little bit of that ’90s space movie “Contact,” except now you get to be the one flying through a black hole.
4. Underwater
Thalassophobes may want to steer clear, but for everyone else who wants an atmospheric, moody and subtle screensaver, this could be the one for you. This dynamic screensaver puts you underwater, looking up from the deep at some light shimmering through the surface of the water.
It’s peaceful, it’s slick, and it includes a very elegantly designed watch right in the middle of the screen that also shows the date. A serious screensaver for serious people (unlike some of the crazy nonsense we have on this list).
5. Plane9
Possibly the most visually impressive array of screensaver effects, Plane9 is a 3D graphical visualizer containing over 250 beautiful and surreal scenes. You can even combine these scenes, getting them to smoothly flow from one into another, leading to a nearly endless supply of visual effects.
What’s more, Plane9 moves and flows in time to whatever music you’re playing on your PC at the time – be it Spotify or iTunes. So leave some tunes on, let the screensaver take over, and you have yourself an excellent background visualizer for a party!
6. Another Matrix
The late 90s come streaming back in all their binary glory with this screensaver, inspired of course by the classic 1999 film, “The Matrix.” Another Matrix looks cool and codey, even if you don’t know what it all means, and you can change basic things like how quickly it pours down your screen, the font type and density.
7. Helios
One of the prettiest screensavers out there, Helios generates smooth purple bubbles, which dynamically react off each other, bouncing and spinning around on your screen. The colors are a lovely neon shade, and you can make various tweaks, like changing the number of bubbles on the screen, the motion blur, and even the frame limit!
8. IMAX Hubble 3D
A tie-in to the 2010 documentary about a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, you can still get this gorgeous screensaver that pulls in photos from the Hubble website. These are some of the most breathtaking images you’ll ever see.
9. Briblo
If you’re obsessed with Lego, you may struggle to keep your eyes and hands off this one. Briblo is not only nice to look at, as Lego blocks calmly stack on top of each other, but you can actually interact with it and create your own Lego stack – sort of like a makeshift 3D game of Tetris.
10. Electric Sheep
The trippy visualizations are created by a community of talented artists. Electric Sheep is an almost endless array of whirring, beautiful images. It takes a little setup, but the executable installation file will help you through it.
11. 3D Maze
Maybe this is a case of nostalgia-trumping quality, but if you remember the old Windows screensavers, you’ll remember this classic. 3D Maze is a first-person run through a maze with weird shapes floating around. You can change the wallpapers in the settings, but we like the original.
12. NES Screen Saver
If you don’t have a library of NES ROMs that you play on your PC, this screensaver will play a whole wall of random sections of NES 1 games for you. If you do have a ROM collection, you can link it to this screensaver and actually play random NES games from your library. (Warning: this is terrible for productivity.)
13. 3D Pipes
Another golden oldie, this 3D Pipes screensaver generates an endless array of multi-colored 3D pipes all over your screen. When the screen fills up, the whole thing restarts (a bit like Snake). There’s still something alluring about its 16-bit color jankiness.
14. Wikipedia
A bit more dry than others on this list, but if you seek to absorb knowledge at every moment of your waking life, then why not try this Wikipedia screensaver which picks a random Wikipedia page for you each time it turns on?
15. Apple TV Aerial View
Put those Apple zealots in their place with this screensaver, which gives you access to the same lovely aerial footage that Mac users get natively. This streams from Apple itself, so you’ll need an Internet connection for it to work.
16. Astronomy Picture of the Day
A nice alternative to the Hubble screensaver we mentioned earlier, this one pulls the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA’s official website. Some images are mesmerising, while others are crazy cosmic charts that might, frankly, be confusing (but cool nonetheless).
17. Blue Screen of Death
Maybe more of a cruel prank than a lovely screensaver in itself, this one is still good fun to foist on someone. It plays a loop of BSOD errors and system boots, giving the viewer horrid flashbacks of all the times this actually happened to them.
Have we convinced you to try any of these, or do you have your own personal favorite screensavers that you always stick to? Let us know!
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Countdown
Set up a specific date and time, such as your retirement or next vacation, via this screensaver’s settings panel and it will display a live countdown on your screen, with the days, hours, minutes and seconds shown in a white font against a solid black background. The Windows version from IcoFX Software has a settings panel that allows you to switch to a light theme or a night time mode (displays the time in red between 10pm — 6am), display a time separator, hide the time labels, and it includes support for multiple monitors.
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Subject | Replies | Last post |
Feature request: countdown to a specific time in a day | 1 | 3 months ago |
Five Star | 1 | 6 months ago |
Help pages
- «Windows protected your PC»
- Quick fix: click «More info», then click «Run anyway».
- Where are the screensavers on Windows 8?
- How to remove a screensaver on Windows 8
Anti-virus report for Countdown
Our editors have reviewed all files and found them to be safe, but they are also checked automatically using many different virus scanners. We are happy to share the results.
Virus scanner | countdownsetup.exe | Countdown.saver-0.1.0.zip |
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Last scanned | 2 weeks ago | 3 weeks ago |
We have 2 files for «Countdown»
- countdownsetup.exe (Windows)
- Countdown.saver-0.1.0.zip (Mac)
File report #1 | |
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File name | countdownsetup.exe |
Target system | Microsoft Windows |
File size | 1.19 MB (1,249,192 bytes) |
File type | Portable Executable (EXE) |
Anti-virus | |
Detection ratio | 0/14 (0%) View report |
Popularity | |
Total downloads | 9,447 |
Last downloaded | 1 hour ago |
File verification | |
MD5 | 3001b27c27c286f030cf52dcc3bd98f9 |
SHA1 | 17741bba11c7b3f2ff896ea015c7d6b80f88006d |
SHA256 | a5441b7589d9169e95a4899d9a77ffab7cd369539cdbdaa63c0dc5952db63411 |
File report #2 | |
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File name | Countdown.saver-0.1.0.zip |
Target system | Apple Mac |
File size | 1.58 MB (1,659,840 bytes) |
File type | ZIP archive |
Anti-virus | |
Detection ratio | 0/14 (0%) View report |
Popularity | |
Total downloads | 3,725 |
Last downloaded | 4 hours ago |
File verification | |
MD5 | 1d704184f8833b8ec73950f39cec0dc3 |
SHA1 | f627d7b779f703e8485327cb5321b026359da981 |
SHA256 | 3616d9c01d79e14f8db01d492c882700bfcca6c4bf886f1a73e36ad04893213c |
User reviews (8)
Jay, If you see your setup and it’s already installed, just go to the your screensaver setting, you must say there is an screensaver is installed, just click it.
This isn’t working on windows 10
i downloaded it and it didn’t work, the only thing I could open was the setup. After going through the setup and it says it’s installed, but I cant find the app anywhere on my computer
Easy & Minimal. Just the way I like it!
I absolutely love the simplicity of the screensaver. However, I am concerned about having some of the digits stay stagnant for so long, which could possibly result in burn-in on some monitors. I have an LED monitor, and I realize burn-in is not as prevalent as it once was, but the trepidation lingers nonetheless. I’m keeping the screensaver anyway! HA!
The windows version on windows 10 doesnt working
the windows version is not working, clock stays all zero after installed.
Screensavers Planet: That means the countdown has finished. Enter the screensaver’s settings menu and set «Countdown to:» to a future date and time.
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