Vista screensaver dodgy

[yhelothar]

So the damn thing doesn't come on half the time. I can't seem to correlate it to anything. I don't have any videos open whatsoever, nor do I have music playing, or paused.

I never had trouble with this in XP. WTF?!
anyone else with the same issue?

 

[corkyg]

First basic question - do you have a CRT or LCD monitor?

 

[yhelothar]

could you explain why it matters?
LCD w/DVI

 

[lxskllr]

Check your USB devices. Could you be bumping a mouse? Some kind of remote control?

 

[yhelothar]

I do have a MX1000 wireless mouse. But last time I had it hooked up to the dock(which deactivates the mouse), and the screensaver still didn't show up.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: astroidea
could you explain why it matters?
LCD w/DVI

Other than for personal entertainment, there is no point in running a screen saver on a LCD. LCDs do not "burn in." LCD backlights have a finite life - so running a screensaver burns the CCF tube just as much as letting the regular image run.

For LCDs, the best solution is to turn it OFF after a determined number of minutes.

 

[lxskllr]

I notice WMPlayer sometimes leaves a process running even after I close it. If you use WMP, try setting the option of allow screensaver during playback, and see if that helps. Also use a pencil eraser on the battery contacts(mouse and cradle) of your MX1000. They sometimes get a little crud on them and make intermittent contact.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: astroidea
could you explain why it matters?
LCD w/DVI

Other than for personal entertainment, there is no point in running a screen saver on a LCD. LCDs do not "burn in." LCD backlights have a finite life - so running a screensaver burns the CCF tube just as much as letting the regular image run.

For LCDs, the best solution is to turn it OFF after a determined number of minutes.

well actually i'm more concerned about the auto off standby mode than the screensaver.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
I notice WMPlayer sometimes leaves a process running even after I close it. If you use WMP, try setting the option of allow screensaver during playback, and see if that helps. Also use a pencil eraser on the battery contacts(mouse and cradle) of your MX1000. They sometimes get a little crud on them and make intermittent contact.

good idea.. i'll check that next time it gets dodgy

 

[yhelothar]

ok i just woke up to my monitor still on again.
i checked the processes, and wmp wasn't open.

 

[yhelothar]

ok i was looking through my processes, and saw ehtray.exe that I didn't seem to notice before.
I looked it up
http://www.file.net/process/ehtray.exe.html
and it looks like a lot of people are having screensaver issues with them
i'll close it to see if it helps

 

[Boo025]

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: astroidea
could you explain why it matters?
LCD w/DVI

Other than for personal entertainment, there is no point in running a screen saver on a LCD. LCDs do not "burn in." LCD backlights have a finite life - so running a screensaver burns the CCF tube just as much as letting the regular image run.

For LCDs, the best solution is to turn it OFF after a determined number of minutes.

I don't have burn-in on my 4 years old vp191b, but it has horrible image retaining problem.

(ei. any static images remaining on the screen for at least 5 min takes about 1-2 hours to go away. Also, when I used to play WOW hardcore the GUI literally remained on the screen for days)

 

[Lepard]

I had the same problem recently.

I installed the IntelliType and IntelliPoint software for my Wireless 1000 Mouse and Keyboard and now my screensaver and my sleep function correctly. This was on 64-bit Vista Home Premium.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Boo025

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: astroidea
could you explain why it matters?
LCD w/DVI

Other than for personal entertainment, there is no point in running a screen saver on a LCD. LCDs do not "burn in." LCD backlights have a finite life - so running a screensaver burns the CCF tube just as much as letting the regular image run.

For LCDs, the best solution is to turn it OFF after a determined number of minutes.

I don't have burn-in on my 4 years old vp191b, but it has horrible image retaining problem.

(ei. any static images remaining on the screen for at least 5 min takes about 1-2 hours to go away. Also, when I used to play WOW hardcore the GUI literally remained on the screen for days)

Yup I had that on my Dell 2001FP too.