How much memory does my screensaver consume?

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How much memory does my screensaver consume?

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How much memory does my screensaver consume?

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The screensaver can be found on your hard disk as a *.SCR file - and here is a simple trick to known how much memory it consumes. This trick will work with windows NT 4, 2000 and Windows XP.

Rename the *.scr file to *.exe file and execute it.
Press ctrl+alt+del, go to the process panel and find the name of your screen saver in the list.
Read there how much RAM it consumes

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