Jack said:
Do I save any power by using the Screen Saver? If not,
what benefit am I getting from the Screen Saver? Do you
have any suggestions for me regarding the Display
Properties setting?
Old monitors used to suffer damage when they displayed the same image
for hours on end. So screensavers were invented to keep changing the
display when the computer wasn't being used, and protect the monitors
from "burn-in".
Modern monitors don't have that problem, so screen savers are
primarily for entertainment. There's also a security function, in that
you can set things so that the computer will require you to supply a
password to leave the screen saver.
If you only want to save energy, click the "Power" button on the
"Screen Savers" tab of the display properties box, and set the monitor
to turn off after some period of non-use.