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One sweeping northern lights scene, across every display you own.

The northern lights over a mountain lake, stretched seamlessly across all of your displays.

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Every feature works. A small trial caption shows on screen until you buy a licence.

  • One scene across every display
  • Bezel gap setting, so lines carry on straight
  • Six aurora colour schemes
  • Shooting stars and a slowly drifting view
  • A new landscape every time

For Windows 11 · aurora-screensaver.zip · 74 KB

See it in action

Crimson northern lights over a mountain lake
Crimson northern lights over a mountain lake
A new landscape, in Arctic green and violet
A new landscape, in Arctic green and violet

The northern lights, edge to edge

Made for multiple displays

The scene follows your display arrangement in Windows, so the aurora, mountains and shooting stars carry on from one screen to the next.

Bezel gap

Skip the part of the scene hidden behind the frames between displays, so lines run straight across. Line up displays lets you set it by eye.

A living sky

Curtains of aurora ripple, fold and brighten over the mountains, as gently or as quickly as you like, with the occasional shooting star.

Lake reflection

A still mountain lake mirrors the sky. Switch it off for a view across open ground.

Six colour schemes

Arctic green, Green and violet, Teal and pink, Crimson, Ice blue and Clarke orange.

A new landscape every time

The mountains are different each time it starts, or keep the same view if you have a favourite.

Settings

Click Settings… in Windows' Screen Saver Settings to make the Aurora Screensaver your own. Your choices are saved for your Windows account.

The Aurora Screensaver settings, with a live preview
The Aurora Screensaver settings, with a live preview
Option What it does
Aurora colours Arctic green, Green and violet, Teal and pink, Crimson, Ice blue or Clarke
Aurora brightness 10 to 100%
Aurora movement Still, Slow, Medium or Fast: how quickly the curtains ripple, fold and brighten
Shooting stars Off, Occasional or Frequent. They fly across from one display to the next
Landscape drift Off, Slow or Medium: how fast the view pans across the landscape
Lake reflection Off puts the landscape on solid ground instead
New landscape each time Off shows the same mountains every time
Displays One scene across all displays, a separate scene on each display, or the primary display only. Available when more than one display is connected
Bezel gap 0 to 400 pixels between neighbouring displays, with a Line up displays button to set it by eye
Animation Smooth, Balanced or Power saving
Dim display 0 to 90% darker

Perfect for

  • Two, three or more monitors side by side
  • Gaming and trading setups
  • Ultra-wide displays
  • Lovers of the northern lights
  • Anyone who wants a calm, beautiful scene on their desk

Install in four easy steps

  1. Download the zip, then right-click it and choose Extract All…
  2. Copy Aurora.scr into C:\Windows\System32. Windows will ask for permission, so click Continue.
  3. Type screen saver into the Start menu search and open Change screen saver.
  4. Choose Aurora from the list, click Settings… to customise it, then click OK.

Just want a quick look first? Right-click Aurora.scr and choose Test to see it full screen, or Configure to open its settings.

Frequently asked questions

Most displays have a frame around the screen. The bezel gap leaves out the part of the scene that would be behind those frames, so the mountains and horizon line up straight from one display to the next, as if you were looking through a window.

Click Line up displays… in the settings. Guide lines appear across all of your displays: use the arrow keys until they run straight from one display to the next (hold Shift for small steps), then press Enter to keep it.

Yes. You'll get the full scene on that display, and the bezel gap simply isn't needed.

It only runs while your computer is idle. On a laptop, or if you'd like it to use less power, set Animation to Balanced or Power saving. A Fast aurora uses noticeably more power than the others.

Aurora is free to download and try, with every feature working. Until you buy a licence, a small "Aurora trial" caption shows in a corner of the screen, moving every couple of minutes. Click Buy a licence in the settings, then Enter licence key… with the key from your receipt email to remove it.

Yes. Click Deactivate on this PC in the settings, then enter the same key on your other computer.

Yes. Windows SmartScreen shows this warning for new programs it hasn't seen many people download yet. Click More info, check the file is Aurora.scr, then click Run anyway. It's a single, self-contained file that doesn't change anything else on your computer.

Windows only lists the screen savers it finds in System32 (plus the one currently selected). If you install it from your Downloads folder instead, it disappears from the list as soon as you choose a different screen saver.

Choose a different screen saver, then delete Aurora.scr from C:\Windows\System32. That's all - there's nothing else to uninstall.

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It's free to try, it's small, and it takes a minute to install.

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