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What stops my screensaver????????
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never seen this one before. On a fully updated, fine-running Windows ME system, with Active Desktop "On" and a colorful personal picture as background, the screensaver just died a few days ago, and even though it is 'on' does not kick in. I can force it by doing the "Preview" function under Display Properties, but will not go on its own. I'm out of ideas. We ARE using a scheme.... one of the sporty ones with a lot of color. Please advise TW -- Consulting for growing local businesses |
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Don't bother - screensavers aren't worth the trouble!
Without some detail as to the exact screensaver in use, there's not a lot more I can say. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Techwest" wrote in message ... Friends never seen this one before. On a fully updated, fine-running Windows ME system, with Active Desktop "On" and a colorful personal picture as background, the screensaver just died a few days ago, and even though it is 'on' does not kick in. I can force it by doing the "Preview" function under Display Properties, but will not go on its own. I'm out of ideas. We ARE using a scheme.... one of the sporty ones with a lot of color. Please advise TW -- Consulting for growing local businesses |
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Standard windows "Plus" package: does not matter which saver I pick from the
menu the behaviour is the same: works on "Preview", does not work otherwise. and I disagree with the assertion screensavers are not worth the trouble. first, thei is the first time any have been "trouble", and secondly they do what the name indicates. twest "Noel Paton" wrote: Don't bother - screensavers aren't worth the trouble! Without some detail as to the exact screensaver in use, there's not a lot more I can say. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Techwest" wrote in message ... Friends never seen this one before. On a fully updated, fine-running Windows ME system, with Active Desktop "On" and a colorful personal picture as background, the screensaver just died a few days ago, and even though it is 'on' does not kick in. I can force it by doing the "Preview" function under Display Properties, but will not go on its own. I'm out of ideas. We ARE using a scheme.... one of the sporty ones with a lot of color. Please advise TW -- Consulting for growing local businesses |
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On systems less than around 6-8 years old, screensavers do very little in
terms of preventing 'burn-in' - yes, there may be some limited benefit to the system *IF* the system is on a single screen all day (and night) - but I would generally expect the monitor to die before the burn-in became annoying on any 'general user' system. The only real use for screensavers may be in a CAD/CAM situation - where I generally recommend that the monitor is set to go to standby - but since ME was never designed for such use, it's very unlikely that you will come across this situation. I say again - what screensaver were you using? - the 'Science' one is known to have issues with a number of circumstances - I really do recommend that it be uninstalled, rather than just disabled. The 'Plus' package was originally published for Win 95 - and it took some fiddling to get it to work properly with Win 98SE. Something that old should be expected to have issues when you're trying to use it on a generation of software three-times removed from its purpose!! DETAILS help - at least then I can attempt to replicate the problem, and have some idea what you're seeing. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Techwest" wrote in message ... Standard windows "Plus" package: does not matter which saver I pick from the menu the behaviour is the same: works on "Preview", does not work otherwise. and I disagree with the assertion screensavers are not worth the trouble. first, thei is the first time any have been "trouble", and secondly they do what the name indicates. twest "Noel Paton" wrote: Don't bother - screensavers aren't worth the trouble! Without some detail as to the exact screensaver in use, there's not a lot more I can say. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Techwest" wrote in message ... Friends never seen this one before. On a fully updated, fine-running Windows ME system, with Active Desktop "On" and a colorful personal picture as background, the screensaver just died a few days ago, and even though it is 'on' does not kick in. I can force it by doing the "Preview" function under Display Properties, but will not go on its own. I'm out of ideas. We ARE using a scheme.... one of the sporty ones with a lot of color. Please advise TW -- Consulting for growing local businesses |
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"Techwest" wrote in message
... Friends never seen this one before. On a fully updated, fine-running Windows ME system, with Active Desktop "On" and a colorful personal picture as background, the screensaver just died a few days ago, and even though it is 'on' does not kick in. I can force it by doing the "Preview" function under Display Properties, but will not go on its own. I'm out of ideas. We ARE using a scheme.... one of the sporty ones with a lot of color. Please advise TW -- Consulting for growing local businesses Make sure you've got the latest graphics card drivers installed. Regards Mike. -- "Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability" (David Brent). |
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