Sadly, Google has known about this bug for almost 3 year now and it’s still not fixed. Not a big deal for me since I’m used to using the “Window+L” keys to lock my machine. This sucks if you like to have your machine auto-locked when the screensaver kicks in. The solution is to uncheck that the “On resume…” box. Why? Because of the “On resume, display logon screen” option: It will cause screen flickering and not show any of the images you asked for! Unfortunately, the Google Photos screensaver has an annoying issue if you run it on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. Oh and it’s free! Get the screensaver by installing Picasa, Google’s awesome photo manager: (The Google Photos screensaver used to be part of the now defunct “Google Pack”.)
As you can see from the settings image above, it can load images from the web, rss, or your local machine. I really like the Google Photos Screensaver because of it’s excellent visual effects options like the “ Ken Burns effect” aka “ Pan and Zoom“:Īnd it works great on dual monitors too by showing different pictures on both.
