TABASCO^® Animated Screen Saver Frequently Asked Questions

1. I'm having trouble getting the animated screen saver to download and install.
   Complete instructions can be found on this page. (Note: the Windows versions of the audio enhanced animated screen saver are self-extracting archives, so you will not need WinZip.)
   
   
2. I can't hear any sound!
   Make sure you have downloaded and installed the audio-enhanced version, which has the name TABASCO^® Dance Hall.
   
   
3. How do I set the volume level?
   Press 1-9 to set the volume, or 0 to turn sound off. Any other key will quit the animated screen saver.
   
   
4. The sound skips, or is choppy.
   Your computer may be suffering from a lack of memory. Free up some RAM by quitting applications.

   Windows users: Some Windows machines, especially older versions of Windows and Windows NT, may perform erratically, especially those with less common third-party sound cards, or sound cards that have been incorrectly configured. Try locating your sound card manufacturer's web site and downloading the latest version of your sound card's driver, or re-installing the driver you have.
   
   

5. What is the big thing that looks like a rat or a beaver?
   It's a very, very large nutria.
   
   
6. I installed the animated screen saver, but it won't launch; or when it does, the screen is black or the desktop doesn't appear. Or, I get an "out of memory" error. What's happening here?
   In all likelihood you have a large monitor set to maximum (usually "millions", or 24-bit) color depth. Try setting your monitor to display 16-bit (or "thousands") colors. On the Macintosh, do this in your Monitors and Sound control panel. Under Windows, do this in the Display control panel.

   Another possibility is that you don't have enough free RAM. Try quitting a few applications and see if it works then. If you have less than 6MB free at the time the animated screen saver launches, there is a good chance you need more memory.
   
   

7. I have a Macintosh with another animated screen saver already installed. Do I need to disable my old animated screen saver to get this one to work?
   In most cases, yes. Some animated screen savers (such as After Dark) you should be able to disable by opening the control panel and turning it off. Others (such as the TABASCO^® Mardi Gras screen savers) you will need to drag out of the Control Panels folder and restart the machine. If you have the original TABASCO^® animated screen saver, and have installed the audio version, you will need to delete or remove the original version from your Control Panels folder
   
   

8. I love the animated screen saver, in fact so much so that I don't get any work done. My boss has demanded that I delete it from my hard drive. How do I (sob) do that?
   On Windows: look inside the C:\WINDOWS\ directory and delete the "Peppers.exe" and "Peppers.scr"
   
   On Macintosh: look inside your Control Panels folder and drag the PepperSaver file to the Trash.
   
   
9. I've read all these instructions and yet I still have an unresolved problem. Can someone help?
   Send a detailed e-mail describing your problem to screensavers@bentmedia.com. Please include the following information:

   Operating System (e.g., MacOS 8.1, Windows 95)
   Computer type/ speed (e.g., iMac 266, Pentium II/200)
   Monitor(s) size/ depth: (e.g, 1024x460, thousands of colors)
   Main hard drive size and free space (e.g., 4GB with 300 MB free)
   Total memory and approximate free RAM (e.g. 24 MB with 8MB free)
   Version of the animated screen saver

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