Trying to figure out how to put Themes and Screensavers from Win 95 plus and get them working on Windows 7 just for nostalgia reasons. Anyone know how? The Golden Era & Mystery where my favorite theme & screensavers.

Here's clips of them in action:

The Golden Era: http://youtu.be/DfFYqgsFxC4

Mystery: http://youtu.be/pXq50H1uNVY

I appreciate the help.

This video contains instructions and a download link for the Plus theme pack in the description

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VI4cLXuuxY

I think you can just run the Plus .exe installer and run the program.

They won't work. Most programs that old are difficult to run compatible with modern software without using emulation or virtual software. Your best bet, if you're even able to install it, is to run it in compatibility mode so that it's comparing to an older operating system. The issue with this method though is that if you're referring to the original pre-installed software, it's not trying to save as a separate activatible program, it'll try to save where the other screensavers are. In that case, you would probably need to have a virtual operating system, which is rather redundant for the purpose of a screensaver.

To be honest though, I don't know if it will work. I have a disk of Afterdark Screensavers, and those won't install off the disk for me, they didn't install off the disk when I was still using an XP laptop, it always comes up with some instillation error, supposedly a missing program. The only hope from here would be to look online for a version that has been re-configured to run on Windows 7.

Downloaded Plus98_For_Windows_7_by_AnsonSterling.zip. Now where do I put the plus! folder at?

Probably shouldn't matter, if it's a zip file you're still going to have to unzip it and run the executable. I imagine after it's unzipped and you've run the installer it will find a place itself to download to.

Forgot to mention I'm using an Win 7 64-bit tried it on my laptop and all I get is a black screen background and the screensaver won't play. :-/

Try right clicking on the .exe, going to Properties --> Compatibility, checking "Run in compatibility mode", and setting Compatibility to Windows 98 (or maybe 95).