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Screensaver Will Not Start

#1 lilachamster

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 05:36 AM

My screensaver worked fine until a couple of days ago, but now does not come on anymore. The display still turns off after the set time as normal.

Does anyone have any ideas about this, please?

*ETA* I don't know if this is relevant, but the night before this problem occured I had installed Spybot, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and OpenOffice on the computer, and also turned on Windows Defender and carried out disk defragmentation.

This post has been edited by lilachamster: 14 September 2008 - 05:50 AM

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#2 garmanma

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 08:58 AM

Was this a "Vista" screensaver or one that you downloaded? Is Spybot's Teatimer enabled?

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