Screen saver is intermittent (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't)

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  ·         You can use the keyboard or the mouse wireless?

  I know, a wireless device can cause damaged screen saver. If so, please change another available cable device.

  By default, the settings are different from different screensavers. Some screensavers have these options to be set in the window of the screen saver, as the text the screen saver, 3D Screensaver pictures, popular screensaver and screensaver of Windows Live Photo Gallery. Some screen savers have no options to set in the window of the screen saver, such as screen saver Aurora, the white screensaver, the screensaver bubbles, Mystify, ribbons screen saver screen saver and Windows Logo screen saver. However, if you want to change these settings for screen savers, you can customize them through the registry instead.

  To resolve this problem, I would propose the following suggestions.

  Method 1: Try to scanner auditor of file system (CFS) on the computer that would be a system file corrupt on the computer search and replace.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929833

   

  Method 2: Check if the screen saver is activated, please follow the following link to get the procedure.

  Enable or disable screen saver: http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/turn-your-screen-saver-on-or-off

  Method 3: try to change several screensavers and see if none of them works. You can visit the following Web site to change the screen saver.

  Change screen saver: http://www.Microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsvista/saver.aspx

  Method 4: A screen saver that shows images stops working in Windows

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2425702

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  To do: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/

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  Screen saver can also be related to Windows Update, if you have installed Windows updates recently, please perform a system restore (if you have a restore point when the computer run without any problem). You can visit the following website for detailed steps.

  How to do a system restore: http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/restore-your-computer-from-a-system-image-backup

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  If the article above is not enough, you can post on Tech net.

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