-- Ronnie,
I followed your directions with the Task Manager, and voila my screen saver
is working. I don't know much about computers and I was frustrated because
my beautiful screen saver of my daughter's wedding worked fine in XP. I also
rebooted after I changed things.....Thank you, thank you!
Rosy in MA
"Life is a gift, enjoy the present"
"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
> Bill
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> Try this: Open Taskmanager/Processes Tab and look for the ehtray.exe
> process. If it is there, right click this process and select End Process
> from the menu. Test the screen saver again.
>
> If no joy, take a look at the following articles and try the fixes there.
>
> The screen saver does not work when you use a Microsoft wireless pointing
> device:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895
>
> The screen saver does not start after you install the Wireless Optical
> Desktop device:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913405
>
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:958D6A7E-816B-425B-BC26-A99E855BA139@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Ronnie
> > I have a new Acer T180 running Vista Home Premimim
> > I don't know if I have Aero enabled as I dont know how to do that.
> > By not working I mean if the computer is left for a length of time up to 3
> > hours then the screen saver does not cut in and my desk top is displayed
> > Thanks for your help Bill
> >
> > "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Bill
> >>
> >> "Does not work" covers a lot of territory? Can you be a bit more specific
> >> and tell us exactly what is happening?
> >> Are these the standard screen savers that came with Vista? Which version
> >> of
> >> Vista did you install?
> >> Do you have the Aero features enabled?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Ronnie Vernon
> >> Microsoft MVP
> >> Windows Shell/User
> >>
> >>
> >> "Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news
42F98DA-B00D-4E05-A05C-218626F3BB9C@microsoft.com...
> >> >I am new to vista and my screen saver dose not work can anybody help
> >> >please
> >>
>