🕴🏿 ⏱️ ⭐️ SCR extension: basic file types and how to open them 🐧 🚢 👨🏾‍🍳

Quite often, many users of Windows-based computer systems, when viewing the contents of directories in file managers, encounter files that have the SCR extension. The question immediately arises as to what constitute such objects, what program to open them, and whether it is viruses.

SCR extension. What is it: a virus or a safe program?

In general, files of this type, in the most common version, are ordinary screensaver programs or screensavers (screen savers), which were originally intended to prevent the phosphor from burning out on outdated monitors. Over time, they began to be used exclusively as a decoration or to automatically hide information displayed on the monitor after a certain period of time in the absence of the workplace.