vista screen saver?

[howhao]

In windows vista I went to set up the screen saver for it to come up 5 min after idle, but it does NOT come up, EVER.

Please help. my laptop sometimes is left on for the whole day when i'm out and i don't like that.

 

[us3rnotfound]

I hate that, happened to me too (Win XP though) and it ended up that reformatting fixed the issue.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: howhao
In windows vista I went to set up the screen saver for it to come up 5 min after idle, but it does NOT come up, EVER.

Please help. my laptop sometimes is left on for the whole day when i'm out and i don't like that.

Most likely cause is some program is rejecting the screen saver initalization. Easiest way to debug this is to start killing startup apps and other un-needed programs until the screen saver starts working. Then we can figure out if the culprit app is doing this intentionally (perhaps a setting) or its a bug.

 

[Raduque]

I had a problem with my hardware causing this. Turns out something weird with the MS Intellimouse Laser 6000 USB receiver messes up the screensaver/powersave initialization routine. There's an updated driver on WU for it, if this is your issue.