Vista - Vista screen savers do not work

For those of you that have discovered that your screen saver doesn't launch
on laptops running Vista Home Basic no matter what you do read further. I
purchased a USB microsoft mouse to use on my laptop. I am not a big fan of
touch pads. Anyway after some time I noticed that the screen saver stopped
working. Unplugging the USB mouse solved the mystery. Seems strange since
it is a Microsoft mouse, but that is what I found.

Hopefully, some vista developers are reading these posts and will issue a
correction for this problem.

The latest Windows Updates correct that.

"Vbritt" <Vbritt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2DE6F4DF-F0E9-4ECD-A714-DD9D0A48D69B@microsoft.com...
> For those of you that have discovered that your screen saver doesn't
> launch
> on laptops running Vista Home Basic no matter what you do read further. I
> purchased a USB microsoft mouse to use on my laptop. I am not a big fan
> of
> touch pads. Anyway after some time I noticed that the screen saver
> stopped
> working. Unplugging the USB mouse solved the mystery. Seems strange
> since
> it is a Microsoft mouse, but that is what I found.
>
> Hopefully, some vista developers are reading these posts and will issue a
> correction for this problem.

Wayne,

I have all of the corrections from Microsoft installed so my laptop is
current on patches. Unfortunately, the problem has not been corrected for
me.

I have a Compaq Presario V6000T, 1 Gig ram, 60 gig hard drive, Core Duo
processor, running on Vista Home Basic.

Do you know which correction from Microsoft took care of the problem?

"Wayne Wengert" wrote:

> The latest Windows Updates correct that.
>
> "Vbritt" <Vbritt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2DE6F4DF-F0E9-4ECD-A714-DD9D0A48D69B@microsoft.com...
> > For those of you that have discovered that your screen saver doesn't
> > launch
> > on laptops running Vista Home Basic no matter what you do read further. I
> > purchased a USB microsoft mouse to use on my laptop. I am not a big fan
> > of
> > touch pads. Anyway after some time I noticed that the screen saver
> > stopped
> > working. Unplugging the USB mouse solved the mystery. Seems strange
> > since
> > it is a Microsoft mouse, but that is what I found.
> >
> > Hopefully, some vista developers are reading these posts and will issue a
> > correction for this problem.
>
>
>

Try this link for an alternative:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mo.../Download.mspx


"Vbritt" <Vbritt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6CB26D30-0E46-4167-A211-73FDBEAB1C55@microsoft.com...
> Wayne,
>
> I have all of the corrections from Microsoft installed so my laptop is
> current on patches. Unfortunately, the problem has not been corrected for
> me.
>
> I have a Compaq Presario V6000T, 1 Gig ram, 60 gig hard drive, Core Duo
> processor, running on Vista Home Basic.
>
> Do you know which correction from Microsoft took care of the problem?
>
> "Wayne Wengert" wrote:
>
>> The latest Windows Updates correct that.
>>
>> "Vbritt" <Vbritt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2DE6F4DF-F0E9-4ECD-A714-DD9D0A48D69B@microsoft.com...
>> > For those of you that have discovered that your screen saver doesn't
>> > launch
>> > on laptops running Vista Home Basic no matter what you do read further.
>> > I
>> > purchased a USB microsoft mouse to use on my laptop. I am not a big
>> > fan
>> > of
>> > touch pads. Anyway after some time I noticed that the screen saver
>> > stopped
>> > working. Unplugging the USB mouse solved the mystery. Seems strange
>> > since
>> > it is a Microsoft mouse, but that is what I found.
>> >
>> > Hopefully, some vista developers are reading these posts and will issue
>> > a
>> > correction for this problem.
>>
>>
>>