screensaver problems

[Jonathan]

I have the welcome screen turned off and I'm using the
classic logon. When the screen saver goes to start I get
the following message:

The application failed to initialize properly
(0xc0000142). Click OK to terminate the application.

In the title bar of the error message is scrnsaver.scr.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Should be scrnsave.scr (drop that last "r"). Try a different screensaver,
start/run regedit, navigate here:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

Open the SCRNSAV.EXE string in the right-hand pane, change the .scr file to
another one (the default is actually logon.scr, not scrnsave.scr). See if
this helps the problem any.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Jonathan]

Well I did some tinkering and got rid of the error message
but know the screen saver goes to start but then it stops
immediately - like someone moved the mouse or pressed a
key on the keyboard.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Then there is a background process interfering with its operation. What've
you got loading at boot that might do this?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone