Vista screen savers do not work

[Guest]

For those of you that have discovered that your screen saver doesn't launch
on laptops running Vista Home Basic no matter what you do read further. I
purchased a USB microsoft mouse to use on my laptop. I am not a big fan of
touch pads. Anyway after some time I noticed that the screen saver stopped
working. Unplugging the USB mouse solved the mystery. Seems strange since
it is a Microsoft mouse, but that is what I found.

Hopefully, some vista developers are reading these posts and will issue a
correction for this problem.

 

[Wayne Wengert]

The latest Windows Updates correct that.

 

[Guest]

Wayne,

I have all of the corrections from Microsoft installed so my laptop is
current on patches. Unfortunately, the problem has not been corrected for
me.

I have a Compaq Presario V6000T, 1 Gig ram, 60 gig hard drive, Core Duo
processor, running on Vista Home Basic.

Do you know which correction from Microsoft took care of the problem?

 

[Wayne Wengert]

Try this link for an alternative:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/Download.mspx