RED SCREENS
on MAY the 1st

A virus spreading through the worlds office blocks

'It was 4.31pm, a minute after the London markets had closed, and on the equities trading floor at Merrill Lynch a weary-looking trader pushed his chair back from his desk. "Bloody hell," sighed the young man, to whoever was on the end of the phone he had hooked around his head. "That was quite a day." On his desk, the bank of screens showed exactly what kind of day: the monitor recording the fortunes of the FTSE 100 was a block of almost unbroken red. Ninety of the companies suffered losses.'

Take part in Red Screens
A distributed event on
MAY 1st 2009

To take part change your screen saver to Marquee
and set both the background and text to red.

Send photos of your red screens to: -

red.screen.london@googlemail.com

Monitor Set up Instructions

Windows XP
Windows NT
Windows Vista
Mac OS X

Windows XP

Change Screen Saver to Red

• Right click on the desktop and select Properties. This will open the Display Properties window.
  Select the Screen Saver tab.
• Change the Wait time to 5 minutes.
  select Marquee from the Screen Saver dropdown menu then click on the Settings button and set the background colour to red.
• Click on the Format Text Button and select Red from the Colour dropdown menu then click ok.
• Click OK on the Marquee Setup window.
• Click OK on the

Switch off power saving.

• Right click on the desktop and select Properties. This will open the Display Properties window.
  Select the Screen Saver tab.
• Click on the power button, this will open the Power Options Properties.
• From the Turn off monitor dropdown menu select Never and click OK.
• Display Properties window.

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Windows NT

• From the start menu select > Settings > Control Panel > Display.
• Select the screen saver tab and click on the power button, this will open the Power Options Properties. From the Turn Off Monitor drop down menu select Never. Click on Apply then OK.
• Return to the Screen Saver tab and select Marquee from the Screen Saver drop down menu and click on the Settings button.
• Set both the background and text to red and click OK.
• Set the Wait time to 5 minutes and click on Apply then OK.

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Windows Vista

Download and install Marquee

• Download ssmarque.scr and copy it to your System32 folder.
  Once this has been completed right click on marquee.scr and scroll up and click on install.

Change Screen Saver

• Open Screen Saver Settings by clicking on Start, select Control Panel, and open Appearance and Personalization.
• Click Personalization, and then Screen Saver.
• Select marquee from the drop-down list.
• Change both the the background Colour and the text to red.
• Set the Wait time to 5 minutes and click on Apply then OK.
• Change the monitor power saving to Never.

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Mac OS X

Change Screen Saver

• Open your Pictures folder and create a New Folder called RedScreenSaver.
• Download RedScreenSaver.jpg and save into the RedScreenSaver folder.
• From the Apple menu select System Preferences and select Desktop & Screen Saver.
• On the Desktop & Screen Saver window scroll down the list of screen savers and double click on Choose Folder.
• Select your RedScreenSaver folder click Choose.

Turning off your monitors energy saver.

• From the Apple menu select System Preferences and select Energy Saver.
• Set the ‘Put the display to sleep…’ and the ‘Put the computer to sleep…’ to Never.

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