Bingo. Didn't thought of that. Yes, I just got the Wireless Desktop 6000
and a Natural Wireless Mouse 6000 to go with it......

PITA.....
""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" <v-kzhao@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Thank you for using newsgroup!
>
> Thanks David for his kindly experience sharing. Actually, if you have
> installed Microsoft wireless pointing device that uses Microsoft
> IntelliPoint software may cause this similar issue. For information, you
> may refer to the following article:
> 911895: The screen saver does not work when you use a Microsoft wireless
> pointing device on a Windows XP SP2-based computer
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;911895
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Ken Zhao
>
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> | From: "David A. Lessnau" <DavidALessnau@discussions.microsoft.com>
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> | Subject: Re: Screen Saver does not come on
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> | I know that with Vista Ultimate RTM x86, if you have a Microsoft
> Wireless
> | Laser Mouse 6000 (amongst others, I believe), the screen saver won't
> | activate under current Microsoft mouse drivers. But, I don't know if
> that
> | applies to x64 or why this would happen all of a sudden on your system.
> No
> | driver updates or scheduled task changes?
> |
> |
> | "mlai" <mlai@community.nospam> wrote in message
> | news:BF1043DA-D9E2-45FB-B92D-CC57B1DDDD0F@microsoft.com...
> | > Had been using Vista x64 RTM for 2 months now and all of a sudden,
> screen
> | > savers refuses to activate after I have been away. And suspending due
> to
> | > inactivity does not work either. I can still manually activate the
> screen
> | > savers and manually go into suspend. They just don't do it
> automatically
> | > anymore.
> | >
> | > I have not changed any of the settings. What gives?
> |
> |
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