Traditional screen savers take over the entire session when your PC idles. That is perfect for overnight displays, but awkward when you want family photos on a second monitor during a workday, reference images in a studio, or ambient visuals during a gathering.
Live Presentation Mode is the standout feature in Memory Screen Saver Plus: it plays your local media in resizable floating windows or full-screen layouts while every other application keeps running. No lock screen, no interruption.
Frame mode vs. full-screen mode
Floating frames
Start with one to six independent presentation windows. Each frame cycles through your media on its own schedule and keeps its own navigation history — so you can step forward and back per frame without affecting the others.
- Drag frames anywhere on any monitor.
- Resize to fit a corner, a sidebar, or a dedicated photo strip.
- Right-click and choose New presentation frame to add more windows anytime.
- Optional borderless frames, and Close this frame from the context menu (closing the last frame ends the session).
Full-screen presentation
Cover selected monitors edge-to-edge while you continue typing, browsing, or editing on remaining displays. Ideal for a wall-mounted TV used as a living-room slideshow or a trade-show display that should not steal focus from a demo laptop.
How to start Presentation Mode
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Configure media first
Add folders on the Media Files tab and set monitor preferences. Presentation Mode uses the same library as the classic screensaver.
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Open Presentation settings
In Settings, go to the Presentation Mode tab. Choose frame or full-screen layout and pick which monitors to use.
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Launch
Start from the Settings button, a desktop/Start Menu shortcut, or run with the
/lcommand-line flag for live presentation instead of idle screensaver mode. Works on Windows and Mac.
Everyday use cases
- Desk companion: A small floating frame on a vertical monitor showing today's random family photo.
- Studio reference: Full-screen mood board on a calibrated display while you edit on the main panel.
- Family gathering: Living-room TV cycles through decades of home videos without putting the host PC to sleep.
- Second-monitor ambiance: Pair with our multi-monitor setup guide to dedicate one display to memories and another to work.
Privacy reminder: Like the rest of the app, Presentation Mode reads files only from folders you choose. Nothing is uploaded or streamed to the internet.
Navigation and control
Each presentation frame maintains its own playback history, so stepping to the previous image in one frame does not rewind another. Keyboard shortcuts are listed on the About tab inside Settings — handy for quickly pausing, skipping, or closing frames without reaching for the mouse.
When you are done, close individual frames or exit Presentation Mode from the context menu. Idle screensaver settings on Windows (or the Mac idle agent) remain unchanged for after-hours use.
Presentation Mode vs. idle screensaver
Use the idle screensaver when you step away and want full-display takeover (with secure lock behavior when your OS requires it). Use Presentation Mode when the machine is active and you want photos visible alongside your workflow. Many users run both: presentation during the day, screensaver after hours.
Choosing which monitors to use
Presentation Mode targets the displays you select, leaving the rest untouched — which is the difference between dedicating one screen to photos and taking over the desk. For the whole-desk version, see the Windows multi-monitor guide or its Mac equivalent; for the single-display case there is a dedicated second-monitor walkthrough.
Why per-frame history matters
Because each frame keeps its own playback history, stepping back in one window leaves the others exactly where they were. With a single shared history, going back anywhere would drag every frame with it, and running more than one would stop being worth doing the moment you touched it. Browsing without exiting covers the keys, the scroll wheel and the on-screen arrows.
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