Stuck returning from screen saver

[Dave Farquharson]

Hi,

I see a few messages here regarding screen savers. I think my problem might
be a little different.

I have several user accounts on my XP Media Center computer. My account has
a screen saver that has the "On resume, password protect" option selected.
What normally happens when a key is hit or the mouse is bumped is the
account login screen is presented.

One in "n" times now, and "n" is getting more frequent (hence my
help-me-please post!), the screen saver clears, the background color that
would normally be behind the account list shows up, and the mouse cursor
turns to the hour glass. It never returns from this. Ctrl-Alt-Del is no
help. Forced to kill the power to get out of this, which is sad.

I expect it's waiting (forever) for something that can't ever happen but the
what of it is the problem. I have new video drivers and all that.

Anyone seen this and figured it out? It's kind of driving me bugs.

-Dave

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Create a new profile/account, and if it works, import the settings from the
old one.

811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151

 

[Dave Farquharson]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply. Hmm. So is it "common" for user account data to get
partially corrupt so that problems like this occur? Seems kind of
disturbing. I figured what was going on was the account screen was asking my
account what apps are running (that info is displayed for accounts that are
logged in) and that something wasn't answering and was completely locking
theUI thread or something. I can try this new account thing but it seems...
well, disturbing

Anyway, thanks for replying.

-Dave