Screensaver

[Guest]

I have Microsoft Vista Home Premium and i have setup a screensaver so that
after i am idle for 5 minutes, it displays the logon screen and asks for a
password. However, this never happens and i do not understand why. The
screensaver never appears, and therefore you never have to enter a password.
What can i do?

 

[Rishi]

Hello,

It seems that there is some device in your system that constantly wakes up
your computer, causing it not to be idle anymore. This might be your NIC
card or something else. One way of
finding the culprit is by opening up Device Manager > Network Adaptors (well
you have to do this step for every hardware that might cause the computer to
come out of sleep but here I'm just giving an example of the NIC) > Find
your NIC adaptor that you use > Double click on it > Power Management tab >
Uncheck 'allow this device to wake the computer' > Click OK and close device
manager.

Hope this helps.

 

[dean-dean]

In addition to noting Rishi's advice, Do you have a wireless mouse? If you
do:

Make sure your mouse's wireless receiver is plugged in and active (this is
important). Go to Control Panel (Classic View) > Windows Update. Click on
Check for Updates. Choose to install the Optional Hardware Update called
"Microsoft HID Non-User Input Data Filter". Your screensaver, with a
wireless mouse, should now work.

The screen saver does not work when you use a Microsoft wireless pointing
device on a Windows Vista-based computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, i neither have a wireless mouse nor any device that is allowed
to wake the computer ( i checked all devices on the device manager) except
the keyboard and mouse. Is there anything else I can try?