Screensaver

[Guest]

My screensaver program has stopped working. No matter what time I put in
to have it activate or no matter what I want to show on the screensaver, it
will not kick in. I am running Windows Vista Premium. Any suggestions will
be appreciated.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Do you have a wireless keyboard/mouse setup, by any chance?

 

[Guest]

Yes, I have a wireless mouse and a microsoft keyboard with fingerprint id,
which does not work by the way because the digital persona password manager
1.0 is not compatible with windows vista. Just thought i would throw that
last part in.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I don't have a fix for that last part, but for the screensaver issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895

should do the trick.

For the password manager issue, checking at www.microsoft.com/hardware to
see whether new drivers are available for your specific hardware model is
what I can think of to suggest.

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[Guest]

To Bill Sanderson; Got my screensaver fixed thanks to you.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Terrific--glad to hear it. It helps if you mark your initial question as
answered--that will enable others searching for an answer to find a correct
one more quickly.

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[Guest]

Question Answered

 

[Guest]

I don't have a fix for that last part, but for the screensaver issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895

should do the trick.

For the password manager issue, checking at www.microsoft.com/hardware to
see whether new drivers are available for your specific hardware model is
what I can think of to suggest.

 

[Guest]

Does this work for Windows XP as well?

I don't have a fix for that last part, but for the screensaver issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895

should do the trick.

For the password manager issue, checking at www.microsoft.com/hardware to
see whether new drivers are available for your specific hardware model is
what I can think of to suggest.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I don't believe so. What is the problem you are seeing, and do you have a
wireless mouse or keyboard?

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[Guest]

I don't believe so. What is the problem you are seeing, and do you have a
wireless mouse or keyboard?

I was having the same problem after adding microsoft wireless keyboard and
mouse. It did work for me though. Thanks

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I just need to delete this and don't know how.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm very pleased to hear that it worked. The article specified only Vista
as an applicable version of Windows, so I didn't expect it to allow you to
install it.

If you are able, it would be good to go back to that article, and, at the
bottom, I believe you can submit feedback. Suggesting that they add Windows
XP as an OS version that it applies to would be good. I'll try to do the
same thing--and also look to see whether there are two different articles
both pointing to the same fix.


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[James]

how can i get a fix for this to work with XP

I don't have a fix for that last part, but for the screensaver issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895

should do the trick.

For the password manager issue, checking at www.microsoft.com/hardware to
see whether new drivers are available for your specific hardware model is
what I can think of to suggest.

 

[James]

how can i get the fix for this to work with xp

I don't have a fix for that last part, but for the screensaver issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895

should do the trick.

For the password manager issue, checking at www.microsoft.com/hardware to
see whether new drivers are available for your specific hardware model is
what I can think of to suggest.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm not sure you can have the same issue with XP.

Tell us what happens: What hardware, what service pack level and version of
XP, what screensaver?

 

[James]

i bought microsoft communitations pack 3000 wireless keboard and mouse also
came w\ LifeCam VX-3000. after i hooked it up my sreensaver quit working, all
of them no matter how many minutes i set it for it wont come on.
I have Microsoft windows XP Media center edition 2005 820 intel vivi pentium
D, 2 GB memory, nvidia Geforce 7300 LE graphics card. I hope i gave you
everything you need to know. Thanks

 

[Bill Sanderson]

In general, Microsofts view has been that this issue on XP is caused by
third party programs:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916256

I haven't found any evidence that there's an equivalent update for XP to the
one for Vista. If there were, I would expect it to be offered as an
optional update--so with the wireless devices connected and running, try
doing a custom scan at WindowsUpdate and see whether anything useful is
offered.

 

[James]

Thank you very much that worked.....i have my screensaver back

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Excellent!

Thank you very much that worked.....i have my screensaver back