If google had a method of displaying ALL photos in a flat world so I could select them all at one time, that could work. I will not use the star rating to add photos as I use Photoshop to rate my photos and I will not rate them twice (PS3 & Google). Most people organize photos by folder as they come off the camera and the screensaver does not play well with that structure. Good Idea, poorly executed for people who have over 30,000 photos. I'm going to uninstall the screensaver and go with some other.
Kindly advise an solution to this problem, since i would like to install back the google screen saver, that is really good.
Since I faced the above problem, I had to uninstall the google screen saver after a struggling it out to find out which program was the cause for the problem, since I installed itunes,adobe media player,quick player & google screen saver one after another.After uninstalling itunes, quick player & adobe player, I decided to uninstall google screen saver & only than the download of MP3 format were automatically saving as MP3 format.
But I noticed one problem, when I started downloading MP3 files, it was selecting movie clip file type & If i use the drop down button to select the format mp3 as file type, it would give me no choice, only choices were all files & movie clip, there's no problem if you want to hear the songs on the itunes, windows media or any player installed on my vista ultimate OS, dell latitute D400 notebook.But if I have transfer the movie clip file on my Philips MP3 player it would not play cause it does not playback movie clips files. The Google screen saver is really cool & nice to look after I installed. You can download Google Screensaver without installing Google Pack (this link may change in the future): Then you can uninstall Google Updater and keep the screensaver. The screensaver is a part of Google Pack, but if you get it from this page you can install only the screensaver. You can configure the visual effects (collage, wipe, pan and zoom, cross fade) and how often the photos change. The title and the author of a photo is always visible and you can go to the source of the photo by clicking to one of the links from the bottom of the window. The screensaver acts like a slideshow so you can move to the next/previous photo using the mouse.
To add a new source, right-click a link to a feed in IE and Firefox and select "Add to Google Photos Screensaver".
Some nice feeds: Flickr ( Vista wallpapers, nature, architecture, landscape, Google food), Yahoo search ( autumn, Dali, sunset). You can find them in photo sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa Web Albums or at this page. It's probably the most interesting feature of Picasa Web Albums: you can monitor all the photos uploaded to your contacts' albums. If you use Google's photo sharing site, you can view pictures from the most recently modified albums and from your contacts. You select a list of folders that contain photos and Google Screensaver monitors the JPEGs from these folders. Google Screensaver is a Windows screensaver that displays photos from different locations: Update: The screensaver is now a Picasa feature.