screen saver

Is anyone having trouble with the screen saver? I set it to 45 mins and it never kicks in... no matter what I set it at..
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Which particular screensaver are you trying? I got Windows Energy to kick in, but Bubbles refuses to work except in Preview :(
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message

Is anyone having trouble with the screen saver? I set it to 45 mins and it never kicks in... no matter what I set it at..
-- ------ Paul ------ www.winxpvista.com

None of the screen savers work...
-- ------ Paul ------ www.winxpvista.com "Jane C" wrote in message

Which particular screensaver are you trying? I got Windows Energy to kick in, but Bubbles refuses to work except in Preview :(
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message Is anyone having trouble with the screen saver? I set it to 45 mins and it never kicks in... no matter what I set it at..
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Do you by any chance have a second monitor attached? I found that the 'extend my desktop to this display' was checked by default...turning it off got the screensavers working again on my main desktop. Except for Bubbles.
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message

None of the screen savers work...
-- ------ Paul ------ www.winxpvista.com "Jane C" wrote in message Which particular screensaver are you trying? I got Windows Energy to kick in, but Bubbles refuses to work except in Preview :(
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message Is anyone having trouble with the screen saver? I set it to 45 mins and it never kicks in... no matter what I set it at..
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"PaulM" wrote in message

Is anyone having trouble with the screen saver? I set it to 45 mins and it never kicks in... no matter what I set it at..
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To Andre, To All:
That makes perfect sense--except that I have a non-WDDM hardware based graphics driver (dumb, pre-knowledgable, decision) that runs Ribbon and Aurora--but not Energy. Or at least not in full screen--the "monitor" on the Screensaver menu will display Energy, but it won't display full screen; when I try to run it, I get a "this screensaver can't run because it requires functionality not available on your hardware-based graphics card." (Intel 910GML, Gateway M280e, 1.8GHz; Vista RC1; Build 5600).
As I mentioned, though, Ribbon and Aurora, work fine. Thoughts on the discrepancy?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or pontifications. All the best.
Dahron Johnson Vanderbilt Divinity School Nashville, TN
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

If you are referring to screensavers like Aurora, Ribbon and Energy, those require that you have WDDM capable card that DX 9 compliant. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Jim" wrote in message The screen saver has never worked on any build for me. The only time it works is when I first boot up and don't log in. After logging in, it has never worked. I don't have the problem in XP.
Does any one else have the same problem.

"skunk" wrote in message

I had another post which confirmed your suspicion. Thanks.
"Bill Condie" wrote:
I think the RANDOM setting does that. Haven't played around with it enough yet
"skunk" wrote in message I am using My Pictures as a screen saver. For some reason after some undetermined time they are no longer displayed in color but black and white. Has anyone else experienced this and know how to correct it? I would like to see my pictures in color. I have a new Dell XPS 410 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card and a ViewSonic VX2235sm monitor running Vista Home Premium.

I'm a little late to the thread, but don't forget, one of the options is a "Black and White" effect.
So I'd guess what's happening is that while using random, it's simply choosing the Black and White effect and that's when you're seeing no color . .. . not a bug or glitch, but the effect doing exactly what it's supposed to do.
Mic

"Michael Palumbo" wrote:

"skunk" wrote in message I had another post which confirmed your suspicion. Thanks.
"Bill Condie" wrote:
I think the RANDOM setting does that. Haven't played around with it enough yet
"skunk" wrote in message I am using My Pictures as a screen saver. For some reason after some undetermined time they are no longer displayed in color but black and white. Has anyone else experienced this and know how to correct it? I would like to see my pictures in color. I have a new Dell XPS 410 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card and a ViewSonic VX2235sm monitor running Vista Home Premium.

I'm a little late to the thread, but don't forget, one of the options is a "Black and White" effect.
So I'd guess what's happening is that while using random, it's simply choosing the Black and White effect and that's when you're seeing no color . . . not a bug or glitch, but the effect doing exactly what it's supposed to do.
Mic

Mic,
You are absolutely correct. I had not even looked at the drop down list below "random". I just thought "random" would be good and let it go at that. I didn't know that there was a "black & white" effect option. Thanks for finally enlightening me on this.
Ron

"skunk" wrote in message

"Michael Palumbo" wrote:
"skunk" wrote in message I had another post which confirmed your suspicion. Thanks.
"Bill Condie" wrote:
I think the RANDOM setting does that. Haven't played around with it enough yet
"skunk" wrote in message I am using My Pictures as a screen saver. For some reason after some undetermined time they are no longer displayed in color but black and white. Has anyone else experienced this and know how to correct it? I would like to see my pictures in color. I have a new Dell XPS 410 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card and a ViewSonic VX2235sm monitor running Vista Home Premium.

I'm a little late to the thread, but don't forget, one of the options is a "Black and White" effect.
So I'd guess what's happening is that while using random, it's simply choosing the Black and White effect and that's when you're seeing no color . . . not a bug or glitch, but the effect doing exactly what it's supposed to do.
Mic
Mic,
You are absolutely correct. I had not even looked at the drop down list below "random". I just thought "random" would be good and let it go at that. I didn't know that there was a "black & white" effect option. Thanks for finally enlightening me on this.
Ron

No problem Ron, just a simple case of forgetting to RTFM. :-D
It happens to all of us from time to time. Just don't let it happen again. ;-) J/K
Mic

"skunk" wrote:

I am using My Pictures as a screen saver. For some reason after some undetermined time they are no longer displayed in color but black and white. Has anyone else experienced this and know how to correct it? I would like to see my pictures in color. I have a new Dell XPS 410 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card and a ViewSonic VX2235sm monitor running Vista Home Premium.

If the Photos screen saver is set to random themes some of the pictures will be displayed in black and white.
Click Settings and view the options for themes.
"maggie" wrote in message

"skunk" wrote:
I am using My Pictures as a screen saver. For some reason after some undetermined time they are no longer displayed in color but black and white. Has anyone else experienced this and know how to correct it? I would like to see my pictures in color. I have a new Dell XPS 410 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card and a ViewSonic VX2235sm monitor running Vista Home Premium.

I just cleaned out a spyshredder from my computer. Since this was attacking my computer I have had a black screen for my screen saver and have not been able to download a new screensaver?
"skunk" wrote:

I am using My Pictures as a screen saver. For some reason after some undetermined time they are no longer displayed in color but black and white. Has anyone else experienced this and know how to correct it? I would like to see my pictures in color. I have a new Dell XPS 410 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card and a ViewSonic VX2235sm monitor running Vista Home Premium.

I also had some unfortunate experience with this beast. Scummy crooks prowl the Internet. I used Spybot S&D to clean it out from the registry. They set up bogus websites to letch into your machine. My secretary wanted to check something about her little dog's kidney problems and clicked on that trap unsuspected. This ugly monster showed up.
"sistrjame" wrote in message

I just cleaned out a spyshredder from my computer. Since this was attacking my computer I have had a black screen for my screen saver and have not been able to download a new screensaver?
"skunk" wrote:
I am using My Pictures as a screen saver. For some reason after some undetermined time they are no longer displayed in color but black and white. Has anyone else experienced this and know how to correct it? I would like to see my pictures in color. I have a new Dell XPS 410 with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card and a ViewSonic VX2235sm monitor running Vista Home Premium.

Is anyone having any problems with the screen saver?? I can only get it to work when it set to 1 min, anything over 1 min and the screen saver will not kick in.
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Yes, I seem to be having sporadic problems. Some times it will work and other times not. I haven't paid a lot of attention to it as yet, I've started shutting the monitor off when I leave for any length of time.
Ray
"PaulM" wrote in message

Is anyone having any problems with the screen saver?? I can only get it to work when it set to 1 min, anything over 1 min and the screen saver will not kick in.
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I will keep looking into it.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Ray" wrote in message

Yes, I seem to be having sporadic problems. Some times it will work and other times not. I haven't paid a lot of attention to it as yet, I've started shutting the monitor off when I leave for any length of time.
Ray
"PaulM" wrote in message Is anyone having any problems with the screen saver?? I can only get it to work when it set to 1 min, anything over 1 min and the screen saver will not kick in.
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:49:34 -0400, "PaulM" wrote:

Is anyone having any problems with the screen saver?? I can only get it to work when it set to 1 min, anything over 1 min and the screen saver will not kick in.

I'm not seeing that problem. It kicks in when it's supposed to, but the screen blanks on only my primary monitor. On the secondary monitor, the screen saver runs, but the Windows desktop is still displayed. Curious.