I recently installed Google’s Picasa, and even though I ultimately decided to use Photoshop Elements, I really liked the Picasa screen saver. It lets you display random images from multiple folders, and has some pretty nifty transition effects. Much better than the XP “My pictures” screen saver.
I was quite annoyed but the Google logos displayed every now and then on top of my pictures, and decided to try to remove them. It wasn’t hard, here’s how I did it.
- Install a resource editing program, such as the XN Resource Editor.
- Open up the Picasa installation folder and make a backup of the file Picasa2.scr, just in case you want to switch back to the branded screen saver again.
- Start the XN Resource Editor and open the file Picasa2.scr.
- Locate the two JPEG resources in the resource tree, in my case it was 111 and 114 (this might differ between different versions of the screen saver).
- Right-click on the resources and choose “Delete Resource”.
- Save the file.
- Done! The Google logos have now been removed from the screen saver!
A little tip: The same screen saver (atleast AFAIK) is available in the Google Pack, in case you don’t want to install the full Picasa suite. It’s called “Google Photos Screensaver”, but seems to be the same program that they bundle with Picasa.
Two years later than this post, google appeared on my screen saver as the only picture. I added my own, but google logo would not go away. I followed your instructions and downloaded XN Resources, found the two jpeg files and could not delete them.
Any other suggestions? Thanks
Barbara