The Aurora screensaver from Microsoft is one of the screensavers pre-installed on Windows Vista, but it works on other versions as well. It simulates a polar light effect that can be seen in the sky in high latitude regions of Earth (and other planets), called aurora borealis (or northern lights) in northern latitudes and aurora australis (southern lights) in southern latitudes. The screensaver uses mainly green and blue shades of color for its aurora effect.
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| Last scanned | 2 weeks ago |
We have 1 file for «Aurora»
- Aurora.zip (Windows)
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| File name | Aurora.zip |
| Target system | Microsoft Windows |
| File size | 963.71 kB (986,834 bytes) |
| File type | ZIP archive |
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| Detection ratio | 0/15 (0%) View report |
| Popularity | |
| Total downloads | 18,342 |
| Last downloaded | 3 hours ago |
| File verification | |
| MD5 | 800dbd07eba1d5f0452aa4967aaabd24 |
| SHA1 | 6dd88f247269e113ee17855e5d69b0dd055160a4 |
| SHA256 | d82b563614499d38129f8d5587c082e40d0910060f121bdae83db4306d53dff3 |
User reviews (14)
Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your computer’s monitor?!
by unknown reviewer on April 5, 2025
Aurora Borealis?!!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your ass?!
by GUY on March 22, 2025
good
by Maximo Valentin Benitez on January 15, 2025
on 4 monitors with one of different resolution the one with different resolution is only 75% of the screen
by Ray on August 4, 2024
Aurora Borealis?!!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your LCD screen?!
by someone on March 1, 2023
Aurora Borealis?!!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your bedroom?!
by Gamer Chalmers on April 16, 2022
Aurora Borealis?!!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your Office?!
by Jack Game on March 26, 2021
This reminds me of installing Windows Vista x64 on a virtual machine. I did resized the memory 5940 MB and the partition to 45 GB. Still the same on a vintage PC from 2009.
by IFEANYI on February 3, 2021
It’s amazing!
by Anonymous on January 27, 2021
I finally have this wonder again!
by Amir on December 23, 2018
Aurora Borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?!
by Superintendent Chalmers on November 30, 2018
Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?!
by Superintendent Chalmers on June 30, 2018
ugly on large monitor (pixelated). hopefully looks better on smaller resolution?
by anonymous on May 16, 2018
Calming
by alfred le surf on April 12, 2017
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The Aurora screensaver was a featured screensaver of Windows Vista. It has been removed from Windows 7, so Windows 8 and Windows 10 no longer include it.
If you a fan of this screen saver, here is a good news. The screen saver can be downloaded and installed in Windows 7 and later versions of the OS. You can download it from the following website:
Download «Aurora Screensaver for Windows 7 and Windows 8»
According to the website that hosts the file, the exe file is nothing more than just handy GUI for file copy operation. We have checked it here and found it safe.
It contains the Aurora screensaver for 32bit and 64bit Windows versions. Use the appropriate file.
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Windows Vista is radically different from previous versions of Windows and comes with hundreds of new features. Aero, new explorer, powerful Start menu, powerful search, ReadyBoost, and Flip3D are some of the features introduced with Vista.
Along with other eye candy features, Microsoft has included a couple of good screen savers in Windows Vista. Though Vista lets you change the basic settings of these screen savers, it doesn’t let you change advanced settings.
Windows users would like to change advanced settings of native screen savers need to edit use third-party screen saver tweaking tools such as Idle Time Edit and Screen Saver Editor or manually edit the Registry.
Change Vista screensaver settings
In this guide, we are going to show you how to manually edit the Registry to change speed and amplitude settings of screen savers in Vista.
Though MS has not kept any options in the ScreenSavers menu, we can tweak these screen savers in the registry as follows:
Warning: Create a system restore point or back up the registry before editing the Registry.
Step 1: Press [Win]+[R] keys.
Step 2: Enter “regedit”(without quotes) in the newly opened Run dialog box.
Step 3: Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Screensavers
Here you can select the screensavers registry entry.
Aurora Screensaver
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Screensavers\Aurora
Create DWORD keys
*Speed
*Brightness
*Amplitude
Set the value of the above keys between 500000000 and 2000000000. If the above values are not working, add/remove one digit and give a try.
Users would like to enhance Vista and Windows 7 screen savers should check out above-mentioned screen saver tweaking tools to enhance Bubbles, Aurora, Mystify, and Ribbons screen savers. These tools let you increase or decrease the number of bubbles in Bubbles screen saver, set line width and the number of lines in Mystify, select ribbon width and number of ribbons in the Ribbons screen saver.
How to enable DreamScene feature in all Vista editions guide might also interest you.