Holiday Lights

Editors’ Review

Except for minor stability issues, this is the standard against which all holiday screensavers should be measured. Holiday Lights lets you string bulbs all around your screen, even on top of the program windows if you’d like. You can customize madly–bulbs for holidays year-round, MIDI songs, blinking patterns–and save your settings as a desktop theme. The screensaver options offer just as much choice. To change the sequence of bulbs, you just drag and drop from a list into border boxes. Clicking on the system-tray icon lets you close, uninstall, or open the preferences window. The quality of the MIDI music is even cheesier than the candy-colored spinning dreidel bulbs, and we noticed the bulbs occasionally disappearing from our screen. The animation also freezes for a second when a new song starts. Considering that Holiday Lights provides genuinely festive and extensively customizable fun throughout the year, it earns its keep.

Full Specifications

What’s new in version 5.4

General

Release November 8, 2008 Date Added November 13, 2003 Version 5.4

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows, Windows XP, Windows NT Additional Requirements Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Popularity

Total Downloads 1,521,452 Downloads Last Week 5