Screen Saver Won't Work

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Belle Starr

Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can preview screen
savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the wait time to
different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help (Kelly's and
Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about, I've tried
shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other newsgroups. But
can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP Home SP2. Does
anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything to do with SP2?
If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right direction. Maybe I
missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping. Belle
 
Hi Belle

Is this with all screensavers or one in particular? Is the screensaver one
that you used with an earlier version of Windows?
 
Yes, Will, it is with all screensavers. And, yes, it did work until
recently.
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Same problem here. See thread below. It seems a number of people have
this problem. See previous posting by Raoul on 1/15 this year

ABC
 
Thanks, ABC. Cannot find posting by Raoul on 1/15 of this year. Could you
please tell me what he said? Also, you said, "See thread below." But, I
don't know which thread you are referring to. Did you get your problem
fixed? Thanks, Belle
 
Thanks, ABC. Cannot find posting by Raoul on 1/15 of this year. Could you
please tell me what he said? Also, you said, "See thread below." But, I
don't know which thread you are referring to. Did you get your problem
fixed? Thanks, Belle
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This is a clip of his post:-
I have three computers running Windows XP Pro. Two are desktops, and one is a
laptop--all Dell. Everything fine for over a year, but recently the two
desktops haven't been running the power scheme properly. The laptop still
does.

What happens with the desktops is that no matter what extent of time I put
into the scheme, the screen saver comes on, but it never gets beyond that. In
other words it never shuts off the monitor, never shuts off the drives, never
goes into sleep mode, etc. After a few minutes in screen saver mode, (with no
activity on my part) the screens pop back up. This is true even if I'm away
from the computers for several hours and have monitor shut-off programmed for
30 minutes.

I have no idea what's waking them up. I've checked all obvious things that
might cause "activity" like Eudora, Windows Messenger, etc. Besides, I have
all those things running on the laptop and it is working fine.

The most recent thing to happen on my machines was installation of SP-2 and
Google desktop search (beta).

If anybody has any ideas I would be most appreciative. Thanks
--
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On my part -no luck yet
 
Thanks, ABC. Cannot find posting by Raoul on 1/15 of this year. Could you
please tell me what he said? Also, you said, "See thread below." But, I
don't know which thread you are referring to. Did you get your problem
fixed? Thanks, Belle
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Oh --my posting is under 'ABC' on 6/3/05 about "XP not turnig off
monitor"
ABC
 
Thanks, ABC, for your input. Hope we get this figured out soon. I'm
tempted to uninstall SP2 just to see if it's causing the problem. Belle
 
Thanks, ABC, for your input. Hope we get this figured out soon. I'm
tempted to uninstall SP2 just to see if it's causing the problem. Belle
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On my troubled machine, SP2 was there long before the problem started.
I would rather suspect one of the reason updates.


ABC
 
Hi Belle, I'm having same problem. My screensaver worked fine till one day it
suddenly stopped being activated. I've done all the right things, like you,
and am desperate to get it to work again. Surely there's someone out there
who can help?

Skiqueen
 
Good luck, Skiqueen. Sure hope a solution is found soon. There were a few
threads along this line in the XP General newsgroup recently, but, so far,
no one has come up with a solution that will work for me. Seems to be quite
a few of us with no screensavers for no apparent reason. Maybe someone will
hit on a solution soon. Belle
 
Dear Belle, as i's not good for the screen to be alive all the time, perhaps
it's a matter of ringing Microsoft Help directly. Sometimes you have to go
straight to the source. I don't want to wait in case someone happens to think
of something that may solve the problem ...

Good luck, Skiqueen.
 
Hi all,

I'm having the same trouble. I see this discussion is a few weeks old now.
Did anyone ever find a solution?

Thanks,

Chris
 
Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can
preview screen
savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the
wait time to
different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help
(Kelly's and
Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about,
I've tried
shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other
newsgroups. But
can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP
Home SP2. Does
anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything
to do with SP2?
If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right
direction. Maybe I
missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping. Belle
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I started having the same problem about a week ago. Then one day it
mysteriously worked again. The next day it didn’t and hasn’t worked
since. Everything seems to be in place. There’s no obvious reason it
shouldn’t be working. Anybody have any luck finding a solution? I’ve
searched the web and haven’t come across anything specific to my
problem except here.
 
Tony,

I went to one of the main sites referenced either in this thread or another
fairly recent thread on screen savers. I'm sorry I can't find the link for
you right now. I do recall that it was a preeminent site that is mentioned
often here, probably either Kelly's or Doug's site that is mentioned below.
I ran a program from the start/run command. I think that program produced a
list from which I disabled or deleted unnecessary files/programs. Hopefully
from this pathetic explanation you can find the site and program. If I can
find it, I'll post again here.

Chris
 
Hi,

Are you sure the monitor is not powering off before the screen saver is
kicking in? Sounds pretty basic, but, that was my problem--changed "Power"
settings in Screensaver, and now works fine.
 
try this.

I was having the same problem. I am running WinXP SP2. I was running the Microsoft anit-spyware beta in the backgroup while I was logged on. I turned this off and I haven't had the problem since, it has been a couple of days now. I don't know if this is you problem or not but it is worth a shot. I am guessing that the software was constantly performing actions that prevented the PC from being "Idle" long enough to engage the screen saver. Let me know if this fixes anyone elses problem.

Cheers,
Brent
 
If you have a USB or wireless mouse and Power DVD installed, uninstall Power
DVD (and I re-installed the mouse hardware and software). Fixes the screen
saver and mouse scrolling issues. Or switch to a PS2 mouse.
 
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