Vista - no screensaver

Hi

No matter what settings i select the screensavers just do not work - any
ideas? All advice gratefully received - and thanks in advance.

Double R

"Double R" <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> No matter what settings i select the screensavers just do not work - any
> ideas? All advice gratefully received - and thanks in advance.

Does the monitor still go to sleep after X amount of time?

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not that I've noticed!

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> "Double R" <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> No matter what settings i select the screensavers just do not work - any
>> ideas? All advice gratefully received - and thanks in advance.
>
> Does the monitor still go to sleep after X amount of time?
>
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> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
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Do you have a Microsoft wireless keyboard or mouse? If so, you can disable
the software/service that enables the extra function keys and get back your
screensaver. Apparently is prevents the screensaver from running.

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"Double R" <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> not that I've noticed!
>
> "Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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>> "Double R" <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:10D363EE-2936-4A02-82BF-66DE6C794839@microsoft.com...
>>
>>> No matter what settings i select the screensavers just do not work - any
>>> ideas? All advice gratefully received - and thanks in advance.
>>
>> Does the monitor still go to sleep after X amount of time?
>>
>> --
>> Paul Smith,
>> Yeovil, UK.
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
>> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>>
>> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
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>>
>

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:57:13 -0500, "Robert Firth"
<webmaster@winvistainfo.org> wrote:

>Do you have a Microsoft wireless keyboard or mouse? If so, you can disable
>the software/service that enables the extra function keys and get back your
>screensaver. Apparently is prevents the screensaver from running.

There's another bug in Vista that prevents the screen saver from
ALWAYS working. I see it work, then it don't depending on which window
has the focus at the time. I have mine set to 10 minutes. Sometimes I
come back and see the screen saver, other times I come back after 20
minutes or more and there's the same application still showing full
screen and no screen saver active. XP did the same thing at times.
Vista adds a new wrinkle in that there's a third happening. Once in
awhile instead of a screen saver I'm back at the initial page when it
is just my long in and little thumbnail photo. I know the system
hasn't rebooted because I'm in the middle of rendering a video and
that is still chucking along.