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Screen saver rarely runs

Started by lti , Apr 14 2012 02:22 PM

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#1 lti

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Posted 14 April 2012 - 02:22 PM

On my old computer running Windows 98 First Edition, the screen saver only runs sometimes. It is set to run after 10 minutes, but sometimes the computer will sit for hours without running the screen saver or putting the monitor in power-saving mode. Sometimes, the screen saver will run, but the monitor never goes into power-saving mode. It does work properly sometimes, but I don't want the desktop to get burned into my CRT monitor. What could cause this problem?

Edited by lti, 14 April 2012 - 02:23 PM.

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#2 Keithuk

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Posted 16 April 2012 - 09:15 AM

Do you mean that none of the standard screen savers run even if you click Preview?

I make screen savers and on my WinXP machine and it used to work perfectly but now it stopped working, the Preview shows it as normal I have a 15 minute delay. The exact same screen saver always works on my Vista laptop.

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#3 lti

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Posted 16 April 2012 - 04:38 PM

They do run if I preview them. They sometimes run automatically, but something is keeping the screen saver from running automatically every time.

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#4 lti

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Posted 30 September 2012 - 05:36 PM

I discovered that the screen saver does run if I click on an empty area of the desktop (an area with no icons) a bunch of times before I stop using the computer. However, if the computer is left inactive for a few hours, the CPU usage never goes below 20% when I exit the screen saver.

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#5 Keithuk

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Posted 30 September 2012 - 08:15 PM

A I said I make my own screen saver in VB that runs on all my machines WinME, WinXP and Vista though the WinXP can be a bit temperamental some times.

One thing you need to check is the power options in control panel. You will find it will switch the monitor and hard drive off after so many minutes by default.

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#6 lti

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Posted 30 September 2012 - 10:03 PM

I set the computer to turn off the monitor after an hour and never turn off the hard drive or enter standby. The screen saver runs after ten minutes. The high CPU usage only starts when the monitor was turned off by the computer and has been off for a few hours before I move the mouse to exit the screen saver and turn the monitor back on.