Introduction

Popularscreensavers.com offers users a toolbar download that gains them access to what they call “a world of fun.” The homepage has a large blue box on the left side prompting users to click to begin the installation. Once installed, the user has an organized set of hundreds of unique screensavers for their PC.

Features

The product download takes about two minutes to complete and the site “congratulates” you upon successful completion. A yellow button appears asking users to click to finish the installation process. Users are then required to submit a working email address. A series of somewhat annoying promotional offers appear and the user can either accept the offers (and junk email) or click a button to bypass the solicitations.

The toolbar then automatically appears on your screen. It features five components: a “mywebsearch,” smiley central, cursor mania, myfuncards and the screensavers.

The search is a standard search engine, with a user-friendly typing box and quick results.

Smiley central offers thousands of smileys in a pop-up box that is organized by categories on the left side. My Fun Cards is a general card personalizing application. Cursor mania is similar to the smiley feature in that it gives you a multitude of alternative cursors to use in lieu of the standard arrow cursor on most PCs.

The toolbar simply allows quick access to the main web page. Using the main page provides a more in-depth using experience and is quite friendly to navigate.

Tips & Tricks

The screensavers site is user-friendly. The most useful tip for the beginning use is to utilize the gray topic tabs at the top of the homepage. For example, one of the categories is “holidays,” which takes the user to a list of all the popular holidays. A click on Christmas shows the user more than a dozen attractive Christmas scenes, including some very nice wintry tree pictures. The photos are high-quality and of sharp resolution. A button at the top of the screen prompts the user to download the entire collection of Christmas screensavers. The site also features a FAQ section and a user guide at the very bottom of the home page. A simple click takes the user to 45 questions and answers provided by the webmasters.

Newbie Friendly Rating

Popularscreensavers.com is an exceedingly newbie-friendly site. The site is easy to read and well-organized. Any problems that arise are easily answered by the FAQ section at the bottom of the page. It’s hard to believe any problems would crop up because the site is just that easy.

Overall, we’d give Popularscreensavers.com a Newbie Friendly Rating of 9.