Screen Saver  

Courtesy Doug Gordon, BMW Touring Club of Detroit

Try this really slick "3D-look" screen saver that will work on both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. To install it on your system, follow this procedure:

1. Download the executable file. Select the "Save to disk" option if your browser asks, and save it to some temporary directory. This file is about 290K bytes, so it will take a few minutes to download.
2. After exiting or minimizing the browser, start up the regular Explorer program and find the file that you just downloaded. Double-click on it.
3. In the self-extractor's window, enter the destination directory for the screen saver file. For Windows 95, this will generally be c:\windows\system; for Windows NT 4.0, it will be something like c:\winnt\system32.
4. Right-click somewhere on the background of your Windows "desktop" screen, then select Properties.
5. Select the Screen Saver tab.
6. In the drop-down list, you should now see BMW listed. Select it. You can use the Preview button to take a look at it.
7. Set the delay that you want and then select OK to make this your default screen saver.

Here's the XP version: Download it here.

The install procedure is similar to the one above, but the destination folder is c:\windows\system32, which is pre-set in the self-extracting file.

After extracting the file to c:\windows\system32, open My Computer and navigate to the c: drive, and to the \windows\system32 folder. Scroll down until you see the file, ssbmwball.scr. Right-click on that file name and click on Install. Follow steps 4 - 6 above, and you should see bmwball in the list of screensavers. Follow the rest of the instructions above.

Garmin Waypoint file of BMW dealers

Here's a collection of U.S. BMW dealers, in a Garmin waypoint file format.
Download it here, and save it in the folder where you keep your other Garmin files.
You can then download it to your Garmin GPS unit using the Mapsource software.