Turn It On!

Personalization of the Windows operating system is not something new, and has greatly changed with each iteration. Starting from file and folder icons, to a completely remake of the whole OS, third-party applications make it all possible. Targeting one area in particular, Turn It On! lets you take control of your screen saver with one, or two mouse clicks.

A good thing you notice right after the download process is finished is that the application doesn’t even need to be installed in order to function. This means you can leave it on an USB Flash drive and use it on other computers as well. The health status of your computer remains intact, since the program doesn’t stick its nose in the registries.

Don’t be scared if nothing happens when you run the application. It works, but it directly goes to the system tray, and if you pay attention, you can easily spot it by the custom icon. In fact, the application doesn’t even have its own interface, but this is only to make it a bit more comfortable and not to waste your time.

Clicking it once makes the color change a bit. Holding the mouse cursor over the icon lets you know that the faded color means your screen saver got disabled. Clicking it again makes the screen saver active. This can come in handy in those situations in which your activity is interrupted forcefully by animated text or any other screen saver you might be using.

To launch it, you merely need to double-click the tray icon. The small control icon placed in the system tray is not all to it. Right-clicking it gives you the possibility to configure your screen saver in case you’re not really happy with the current one. However, there aren’t any special options, since this takes you to the Windows default settings.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Turn It On! is a lightweight application meant to offer you a bit more control over your screen saver. Disabling it at the press of a button is a neat feature, but the lack of a bit more features, like hotkey integration, or a special set of controls have a great impact on overall practicality, leaving more to be desired.