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XP annoyance #4,000,001

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

No Lifer
Just found yet another new brokenness of XP SP2 - if there is an active screensaver, hitting the front-panel power-off button (to trigger an ACPI soft-off shutdown sequence on ACPI-compatible systems), does not work!

Once you hit the button, the screensaver freezes, and you have to move the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard to escape the screensaver, and then the soft-off shutdown proceeds. This is extremely annoying, especially for a headless server box.

Has anyone else run into this? Is there a hotfix available?
 
Hmm, I had a very similar experience with a bunch of Dells at work. The screensaver would catch the first button press and interpret it as input. It would exit, and the next press would bring the system down. Not as annoying as what you describe; but it does seem dodgy for screensavers to be catching ACPI events.
 
Um, if it's a headless box then why the hell would you have a screensaver running? You don't ever need a screensaver, always turn them off.
 
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