[Belle Starr]

Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can preview screen
savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the wait time to
different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help (Kelly's and
Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about, I've tried
shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other newsgroups. But
can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP Home SP2. Does
anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything to do with SP2?
If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right direction. Maybe I
missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping. Belle

[Will Denny]

Hi Belle

Is this with all screensavers or one in particular? Is the screensaver one
that you used with an earlier version of Windows?

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups


"Belle Starr" <bellestarr@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eiJ4OT%23ZFHA.3032@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can preview screen
> savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the wait time to
> different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help (Kelly's and
> Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about, I've tried
> shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other newsgroups.
> But can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP Home SP2.
> Does anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything to do
> with SP2? If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right
> direction. Maybe I missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping.
> Belle

[Belle Starr]

Yes, Will, it is with all screensavers. And, yes, it did work until
recently.

[ABC]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:03:57 -0500, "Belle Starr"
<bellestarr@nospam.com> wrote:

>Yes, Will, it is with all screensavers. And, yes, it did work until
>recently.
>
Same problem here. See thread below. It seems a number of people have
this problem. See previous posting by Raoul on 1/15 this year

ABC

[Belle Starr]

Thanks, ABC. Cannot find posting by Raoul on 1/15 of this year. Could you
please tell me what he said? Also, you said, "See thread below." But, I
don't know which thread you are referring to. Did you get your problem
fixed? Thanks, Belle

[ABC]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:05:10 -0500, "Belle Starr"
<bellestarr@nospam.com> wrote:

>Thanks, ABC. Cannot find posting by Raoul on 1/15 of this year. Could you
>please tell me what he said? Also, you said, "See thread below." But, I
>don't know which thread you are referring to. Did you get your problem
>fixed? Thanks, Belle
>
This is a clip of his post:-

>I have three computers running Windows XP Pro. Two are desktops, and one is a
>laptop--all Dell. Everything fine for over a year, but recently the two
>desktops haven't been running the power scheme properly. The laptop still
>does.
>
>What happens with the desktops is that no matter what extent of time I put
>into the scheme, the screen saver comes on, but it never gets beyond that. In
>other words it never shuts off the monitor, never shuts off the drives, never
>goes into sleep mode, etc. After a few minutes in screen saver mode, (with no
>activity on my part) the screens pop back up. This is true even if I'm away
>from the computers for several hours and have monitor shut-off programmed for
>30 minutes.
>
>I have no idea what's waking them up. I've checked all obvious things that
>might cause "activity" like Eudora, Windows Messenger, etc. Besides, I have
>all those things running on the laptop and it is working fine.
>
>The most recent thing to happen on my machines was installation of SP-2 and
>Google desktop search (beta).
>
>If anybody has any ideas I would be most appreciative. Thanks
>--

On my part -no luck yet
--

ABC

[ABC]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:05:10 -0500, "Belle Starr"
<bellestarr@nospam.com> wrote:

>Thanks, ABC. Cannot find posting by Raoul on 1/15 of this year. Could you
>please tell me what he said? Also, you said, "See thread below." But, I
>don't know which thread you are referring to. Did you get your problem
>fixed? Thanks, Belle
>
Oh --my posting is under 'ABC' on 6/3/05 about "XP not turnig off
monitor"
ABC

[Belle Starr]

Thanks, ABC, for your input. Hope we get this figured out soon. I'm
tempted to uninstall SP2 just to see if it's causing the problem. Belle

[ABC]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:19:00 -0500, "Belle Starr"
<bellestarr@nospam.com> wrotd:

>Thanks, ABC, for your input. Hope we get this figured out soon. I'm
>tempted to uninstall SP2 just to see if it's causing the problem. Belle

On my troubled machine, SP2 was there long before the problem started.
I would rather suspect one of the reason updates.


ABC

[Skiqueen]

Hi Belle, I'm having same problem. My screensaver worked fine till one day it
suddenly stopped being activated. I've done all the right things, like you,
and am desperate to get it to work again. Surely there's someone out there
who can help?

Skiqueen

"Belle Starr" wrote:

> Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can preview screen
> savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the wait time to
> different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help (Kelly's and
> Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about, I've tried
> shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other newsgroups. But
> can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP Home SP2. Does
> anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything to do with SP2?
> If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right direction. Maybe I
> missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping. Belle
>
>
>

[Belle Starr]

Good luck, Skiqueen. Sure hope a solution is found soon. There were a few
threads along this line in the XP General newsgroup recently, but, so far,
no one has come up with a solution that will work for me. Seems to be quite
a few of us with no screensavers for no apparent reason. Maybe someone will
hit on a solution soon. Belle

"Skiqueen" <Skiqueen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E9154F77-48F5-4382-9DD8-EC41035313BF@microsoft.com...
> Hi Belle, I'm having same problem. My screensaver worked fine till one day
> it
> suddenly stopped being activated. I've done all the right things, like
> you,
> and am desperate to get it to work again. Surely there's someone out there
> who can help?
>
> Skiqueen
>
> "Belle Starr" wrote:
>
>> Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can preview screen
>> savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the wait time to
>> different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help (Kelly's and
>> Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about, I've tried
>> shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other newsgroups.
>> But
>> can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP Home SP2.
>> Does
>> anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything to do with
>> SP2?
>> If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right direction. Maybe
>> I
>> missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping. Belle
>>
>>
>>

[Skiqueen]

Dear Belle, as i's not good for the screen to be alive all the time, perhaps
it's a matter of ringing Microsoft Help directly. Sometimes you have to go
straight to the source. I don't want to wait in case someone happens to think
of something that may solve the problem ...

Good luck, Skiqueen.

"Belle Starr" wrote:

> Good luck, Skiqueen. Sure hope a solution is found soon. There were a few
> threads along this line in the XP General newsgroup recently, but, so far,
> no one has come up with a solution that will work for me. Seems to be quite
> a few of us with no screensavers for no apparent reason. Maybe someone will
> hit on a solution soon. Belle
>
> "Skiqueen" <Skiqueen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E9154F77-48F5-4382-9DD8-EC41035313BF@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Belle, I'm having same problem. My screensaver worked fine till one day
> > it
> > suddenly stopped being activated. I've done all the right things, like
> > you,
> > and am desperate to get it to work again. Surely there's someone out there
> > who can help?
> >
> > Skiqueen
> >
> > "Belle Starr" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can preview screen
> >> savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the wait time to
> >> different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help (Kelly's and
> >> Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about, I've tried
> >> shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other newsgroups.
> >> But
> >> can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP Home SP2.
> >> Does
> >> anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything to do with
> >> SP2?
> >> If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right direction. Maybe
> >> I
> >> missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping. Belle
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

[opieandy]

Hi all,

I'm having the same trouble. I see this discussion is a few weeks old now.
Did anyone ever find a solution?

Thanks,

Chris


"Skiqueen" wrote:

> Dear Belle, as i's not good for the screen to be alive all the time, perhaps
> it's a matter of ringing Microsoft Help directly. Sometimes you have to go
> straight to the source. I don't want to wait in case someone happens to think
> of something that may solve the problem ...
>
> Good luck, Skiqueen.
>
> "Belle Starr" wrote:
>
> > Good luck, Skiqueen. Sure hope a solution is found soon. There were a few
> > threads along this line in the XP General newsgroup recently, but, so far,
> > no one has come up with a solution that will work for me. Seems to be quite
> > a few of us with no screensavers for no apparent reason. Maybe someone will
> > hit on a solution soon. Belle
> >
> > "Skiqueen" <Skiqueen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:E9154F77-48F5-4382-9DD8-EC41035313BF@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi Belle, I'm having same problem. My screensaver worked fine till one day
> > > it
> > > suddenly stopped being activated. I've done all the right things, like
> > > you,
> > > and am desperate to get it to work again. Surely there's someone out there
> > > who can help?
> > >
> > > Skiqueen
> > >
> > > "Belle Starr" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi. I need help getting my screen saver to work. I can preview screen
> > >> savers, but cannot get it to work on it's own. I've set the wait time to
> > >> different times, I've searched all the 'good' sites for help (Kelly's and
> > >> Doug's, etc), I've checked all the settings that I know about, I've tried
> > >> shutting off the firewall and AVG, and I've searched other newsgroups.
> > >> But
> > >> can find nothing to help. It just does not work. I have XP Home SP2.
> > >> Does
> > >> anyone have any suggestions I can try? Can it have anything to do with
> > >> SP2?
> > >> If I'm in the wrong group, please point me in the right direction. Maybe
> > >> I
> > >> missed it in my searching. Thanks for helping. Belle
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
> >