Windows cannot start the screen saver

I get this message instead of a screen saver... no matter which, I chose. If I go to preview, all he says is that there is "no preview available".

It started this week. I install nothing new at the time it started, at least one week before, and I think it was actually longer than a week.
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium SP2

Thank you! Home at last got to this do and method 1 worked. I could have lived without the screen saver, but I prefer it. Happy to have it work again.

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