Does this screen saver still exist?

[Bob Newman]

Way, way back when, I had a screen saver with the feature that if you hovered the mouse over a chosen corner of the screen it would automatically kick in whatever screen saver you were using. If you saw the boss coming and you didn't want him to see what was on your screen, just slide the mouse over to the corner and the screen would go dark before he got there. Does something like this still exist?

Thanks in advance... Bob

[Spalls Hurgenson]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:05:26 -0700 (PDT), Bob Newman

Post by Bob Newman
Way, way back when, I had a screen saver with the feature that if you hovered the mouse over a chosen corner of the screen it would automatically kick in whatever screen saver you were using. If you saw the boss coming and you didn't want him to see what was on your screen, just slide the mouse over to the corner and the screen would go dark before he got there. Does something like this still exist?
Thanks in advance... Bob

Hot corners are not an automatic option in Windows; they need to be
programmed into the screensaver individually.

However, you can use a third-party tool to get the functionality you
want

e.g. http://www.arcatapet.net/wwhotc.cfm
(first one I found, not tested)


You move the mouse into the corner and it launches your currently
selected screensaver.

Alternately, you can create a shortcut to the screensaver and assign a
hot-key (e.g., CTRL-SHIFT-X) which will launch the screensaver when
you press the key-combination