Is After Dark compatible for Windows 10?

Apparently here according to this person on Reddit who seems to believe it's working on their Windows 10 environment.

I can't verify it'll work as it's a huge download for a screensaver and my internet speed isn't wonderful here. According to this post a lot of old screensavers do still work in Windows 8.1/10, so I guess it's worth a shot.

Edit: So I downloaded it, extracted it with 7-zip, mounted the ISO within, ran the setup file in ADE with Windows 95 Compatability (Threw one error message but skipped it without a problem), it seems to work fine (the dropdown box shows the wrong name, but otherwise it runs):

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Edit 2: I now have a craving for toast.

Edit 3: Settings page doesn't work, so I'm not sure if there's any way to modify whatever settings it has.

Edit 4: You can change what screensaver it uses by going into C:\After Dark\After Dark 4.0. By default it's using Flying Toasters!.ad. Rename that to something else (Flying Toasters!.ad.old perhaps) and rename any other file in here to Flying Toasters!.ad. It's a bodge, but it's also just a screensaver. I don't really want it anymore so I'll leave it to you to tinker with that if you so wish.


I was able to install After Dark in Windows 10 as shown above, running /ADE/Setup.exe using Windows 95 compatibility. The problem I am having is that the default screen saver seems to be Starry Night or some other star field screen saver. Starry Night.ad is found in the C:/After Dark/After Dark folder. I tried copying Flying Toasters!.ad to this location and renaming it Starry Night.ad however this didn't work. I also placed the renamed file in C:/After Dark/After Dark 4.0 folder. Running the Screen saver still shows Starry Night, and a message along the top of screen that says "Unable to load selected module:C:/After Dark/After Dark 4.0/Flying Toasters!.ad" I'll keep tinkering with it when I have time, if anyone had figured it out, please let me know. [email protected]

A few min later - I fixed it! There is a needed file that fails to install. Locate adxpl510.dll in the installation folder /ADE/FILES/AD40. copy this file to she same folder as After Dark.scr (Mine was in c:/Windows/SysWOW64). Now the screensaver can locate the module:C:/After Dark/After Dark 4.0/Flying Toasters!.ad


I was able to make sense of the preferences by installing AD on Windows XP and looking in REGEDIT.

Mute All Sounds: Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Berkley Systems\After Dark add a REG_DWORD MuteSound with data 1

Change Module: Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Berkley Systems\After Dark\Folders change the data of After Dark 4.0 to the name of the module you want, no .ad extension.

If you're just into Flying Toasters: Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Berkley Systems\After Dark\Module Setings\After Dark 4.0\Flying Toasters! add four REG_DWORD entries:

Control0 for Objects on Screen, data 0 (little), 1, 2 or 3 (lots).

Control1 for Types of Toastes, data 0 (Adutls), 1 (Babies) or 2 (Random).

Control2 for Music, data 0 (never), 1(1 min), 2 (2 min), 3 (5 min), 4 (30 min) or 5(always).

Control3 for Display Karaoke, 0 (no) or 1 (yes).