Photos Screen Saver has stopped working

I am testing out Vista Ultimate and everything runs fine except that the
photo screen saver will not preview and immediately responds with an error
message saying, "Photos Screen Saver has stopped working. A problem caused
the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and
notify you if a solution is available." My Pictures has over 10,000 files
but worked fine in XP Professional. Any ideas Microsoft?

Same problem on vista home premium. Worked fine yesterday until I
installed several new programs and fiddled with power management. Tried
to reverse but cannot get it going again. Ideas?


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garylane

I received exactly the same message about my quilt design software.
Worked fine for the first few days, then would not work. Had received
several automatic windows updates in that time and tried to use
recovery manager to return to previous settings, but that did not work
either. Any ideas?


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cantrelld

I have had the same problem.

It happened once.... I did somehting then it worked.. now it stops also..
..here are some things I noticed.

1) If you change it to CLASSIC mode instead of Random or any other mode it
WILL WORK.. however the Power Management to shut down the monitor doe snot
kick in.

2) If you point it to a directory WITHOUT video it will work (I have the
codecs for all my videos.. It DID used to plkay the cideos in the screen
saver fine).

3) I looked at the error repor tit generated in Problems Reports and
solutions. It seems to point to a problem with the file iac25_32.ax. This
is in the Windows>System 32 directory and has something to do with Indeo. I
actually purchased the Indeo driver pack which works fine to play older Indeo
encoded videos (Ligos).

Anyway.. I hope they cna figure this out.. since these files play fine
everywhere else, they should play in the photo screen saver also.

Anyone else have this issu eplease let me know.. I really liked that saver!
Just like you guys I dont know what caused it. I can play any other videos
without a problem even in Windows Gallery>Media Player....

Can you test those 2 items see if you have the same results.

I hope MS has a fix for this... It
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Mike Abrams


"cantrelld" wrote:

>
> I received exactly the same message about my quilt design software.
> Worked fine for the first few days, then would not work. Had received
> several automatic windows updates in that time and tried to use
> recovery manager to return to previous settings, but that did not work
> either. Any ideas?
>
>
> --
> cantrelld
>

I have the exact same problem. I can easily replicate the issue as having to
do with AVI/videos by pointing the photo screensaver to a directory with only
AVIs and it will hang instantly.

It did work earlier. One suspects it has something to do with codecs and/or
other video software, as I have installed a few of these in the past couple
of weeks and that is when it stopped working. (e.g. Media Player Classic, a
GNU open source product). Other upgrades include real networks updates and
other such products.

AVIs play fine in various media players.

I made sure the AVI association is with Windows Media Player, to no avail.

I am sure that like most people, what is so frustrating is this worked fine
initially...and now it does not.



"Mike Abrams" wrote:

> I have had the same problem.
>
> It happened once.... I did somehting then it worked.. now it stops also..
> .here are some things I noticed.
>
> 1) If you change it to CLASSIC mode instead of Random or any other mode it
> WILL WORK.. however the Power Management to shut down the monitor doe snot
> kick in.
>
> 2) If you point it to a directory WITHOUT video it will work (I have the
> codecs for all my videos.. It DID used to plkay the cideos in the screen
> saver fine).
>
> 3) I looked at the error repor tit generated in Problems Reports and
> solutions. It seems to point to a problem with the file iac25_32.ax. This
> is in the Windows>System 32 directory and has something to do with Indeo. I
> actually purchased the Indeo driver pack which works fine to play older Indeo
> encoded videos (Ligos).
>
> Anyway.. I hope they cna figure this out.. since these files play fine
> everywhere else, they should play in the photo screen saver also.
>
> Anyone else have this issu eplease let me know.. I really liked that saver!
> Just like you guys I dont know what caused it. I can play any other videos
> without a problem even in Windows Gallery>Media Player....
>
> Can you test those 2 items see if you have the same results.
>
> I hope MS has a fix for this... It
> --
> Mike Abrams
>
>
> "cantrelld" wrote:
>
> >
> > I received exactly the same message about my quilt design software.
> > Worked fine for the first few days, then would not work. Had received
> > several automatic windows updates in that time and tried to use
> > recovery manager to return to previous settings, but that did not work
> > either. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > --
> > cantrelld
> >

I am having the same problem as everyone else just described...
Can someone help me

Remove any video files from the folder you are using for the Photos Screen
Saver.

--
I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!


"Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news04A6B97-15F2-4171-9718-E81CABE9DEB9@microsoft.com...
>
> I am having the same problem as everyone else just described...
> Can someone help me

I found if you just use photos and make it look in just a folder with photos,
it will not crash.. BUT it doe snot work.. if I set screen saver for 2 mins
for instance.. it just keeps going.

There is obviously a lot of issues with the photo screeen saver.... As it
DID work very wekk at 1st and now it is affectred by codecs and other things.

Is there a way to sort of reinstall it?

Or somehow get it working

Mike
--
Mike Abrams


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

> Remove any video files from the folder you are using for the Photos Screen
> Saver.
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news04A6B97-15F2-4171-9718-E81CABE9DEB9@microsoft.com...
> >
> > I am having the same problem as everyone else just described...
> > Can someone help me
>
>

"Mike Abrams" wrote:

> I found if you just use photos and make it look in just a folder with photos,
> it will not crash.. BUT it doe snot work.. if I set screen saver for 2 mins
> for instance.. it just keeps going.
>
> There is obviously a lot of issues with the photo screeen saver.... As it
> DID work very wekk at 1st and now it is affectred by codecs and other things.
>
> Is there a way to sort of reinstall it?
>
> Or somehow get it working
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Abrams
>
>
> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
>
> > Remove any video files from the folder you are using for the Photos Screen
> > Saver.
> >
> > --
> > I Bleed Blue and Gold
> > GO BEARS!
> >
> >
> > "Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news04A6B97-15F2-4171-9718-E81CABE9DEB9@microsoft.com...
> > >
> > > I am having the same problem as everyone else just described...
> > > Can someone help me
> >
> >

[jaswave]

I didn't try to set up the photo screen saver until I had already put a lot of stuff on the hard drive, but the first time I tried to use it I got the error message that it wasn't working. I hope this and some of the other problems I've encountered since purchasing my first computer with "Vista" will be fixed in the upcoming service pack.