Few days back, we received a mail from one of our readers, Ian from Jenak Industries Inc reporting problem with windows screen-saver.

He reported that “I cannot get my computer to activate the screen-saver all I get when I got to
the change scree-saver in control panel and activate a program it accepts it but when the  display turns off and it is supposed to bring up the screen-saver I get a black screen”

On analyzing the reported problem, I could make out that before activation of screen saver, the screen goes blank. This usually happens due to power settings.

The problem may appear like a big blunder but it actually is a very simple to fix, lets see the fix.

Fix:

This means even if the screen saver is correctly configured it will never show up if the power settings of windows force the screen to go blank or stand-by the computer before actual display timeout of the scree.

To fix it follow these simple steps:

1.  Go to Start > Control Panel > Power Options.

2. This will launch power options screen as seen below.

3. On this screen, Select the

Power schemes as “Presentation”

Turn off Monitor : “Never”

Turn off hard disk : “Never”

System standby : “Never”

System Hibernates : “Never”

4. Make sure that above settings are correct. Press Apply and then Ok.

These settings will prevent the display from going blank and thus the screen saver will appear normally.

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