A while back I installed Windows 98SE to Virtual PC under Windows XP Pro. I decided to add Johnny Castaway Screensaver to this virtual machine which I had on an old floppy disk and sure enough Johnny Castaway screensaver ran in the virtual environment as well as sound worked too.

Trouble was that Johnny Castaway was ok when not using the virtual environment and fun to watch him frustrated on the island etc and cooking boots to eat and mumbling, but I decided I had enough with him and wanted him shut off. Went into Windows 98 SE desktop properties and shut off screensavers. But he was still part of a timer that would enable him. HUNTED all over for this timer and couldnt find it. Went to uninstall him and he is still there after unsuccessful uninstall of him from virtual windows 98 system.

Was thinking that I was going to have to delete this Windows 98 SE virtual machine and start fresh to remove him, but FOUND this rather interesting that he has been known I guess to not want to be deleted..LOL http://www.how-to-uninstall-program.com/uninstaller/uninstall-johnny-castaway-screensaver-3-31-johnny-castaway-screensaver-3-31-removal-johnny-castaway-screensaver-3-31-windows-uninstaller.html

I am going to just create a new virtual Windows 98 SE environment which is clean and will probably just delete him by deleting the virtual hard drive that he is on, since even using a tool SUGGESTED at this site, the registry is likely swiss cheese afterwards.

I ENJOYED having him on my 386SX 40Mhz around 1994 back in the day with Windows 3.11 and 4MB RAM on the monster 5.25" 40MB Hard Drive that sounded like a rock tumbler when fetching data and booting. But I haven't used screen savers ever since upgrading away from CRT's around 2005 which needed them to avoid burning the screens.

Figured I'd post this here in case anyone remembers this screen saver and tries to install it on Windows 98 or newer for a screen saver flashback and has uninstall issues like I did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Castaway