Hanging On Screensaver
May 17, 2008
On a couple occasions now, I have left the computer, and then come back to the computer to see the screen all black with that circular Vista logo in the middle of the screen. I take it that means the screensaver was about to kick in? Well the system did not respond either time. What is going on here? These Vista freezes are getting tiresome. I have also had problems with Chess Titans. If I open IE while playing it, then system is guaranteed to freeze. If I try to maximize the Chess Titans window, the system is guaranteed to freeze. Some people warned me not to get Vista. If I can't fix the freezing, then I will regret not listening to them.
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Mar 5, 2009
Well I Formated my HD and installed Windows Vista Ultimate... But the installation prosses Was Very Slow...and when it finished, the system was So slow, that you cant do anything.. and i tried that with new Hard Drive that i just bought but the same thing happens.. Also i tried to install windows Xp and the Same thing there... But when i boot in Safe mode it Goes A little Bit faster , So What maybe the Reason that Happens that?
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Sep 21, 2009
I have a problem with Vista. Recently, if I don't use a computer about 20-30. minutes and then try to run something then the explorer hangs and doesn't, ALT + CTRL + DEL combination doesn't work . If a program was run before the shell hangs then it will continue to work whereas the explorer is hanging. I have tried to left performance monitor opened and found that the CPU and HDD were not used while the shell was hanging. If I active use the computer without long inactivity then nothing happens.
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Jun 27, 2008
I keep having the problem of MS Outlook not responding, or clicking on a link in an email and nothing happening, or clicking on any way to get into explorer either from a desktop or task bar icon, etc. If I shut down or restart it clears up for a while, but comes back soon, eventually. I have IE version 7, Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1. (32 bit) How can I keep this from happening?
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Sep 17, 2009
Working on a Toshiba Satellite A205-S4617, using Windows Vista Home Premium. It started out with hangtime -- a lot of hangtime. With anything that put a little stress on the system: music, games, movies were all useless to me now. Even web browsing was a chore, with a 15-second hangtime for each web page opened -- sometimes twice (much worse on the graphics-heavy sites). The system was also extremely slow retrieving files on the hard disk. I didn't know what to do for several months until I narrowed the cause down to the Windows Update Error 80070426. Based on advice to other people with similar problems that I found here and other places, I took the following steps: I made sure my copy of Vista was re-authenticated, then I tried installing the updates again. No luck.
The next option was to restore my machine to the factory settings. This could be accomplished rather easily with the system restore disk that came with the computer. Except that during my last move, the wife thought the computer box would make nice storage for drinking glasses, and promptly emptied the contents of the box. That stuff has not been seen or heard from since. Whenever I describe my computer woes to somebody and they ask why I don't just restore it with the backup disk, I just give the wife a hard stare and shake my head a little, saying nothing.
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Mar 3, 2008
I am having a problem where the clean install of windows vista ultimate 64bit is hanging on the expanding files (0%)
My pc spec is
asus m2n-sli dlx nf570
amd athlon 64 x2 dual 6400+
4gb pc2 6400 ddr2 ram
BFG geforce 8800 gt 512mb
500gb sata2 hard drive
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Mar 23, 2008
I have Windows Vista Home Premium edition and I am using Windows Live One Care. Today there was an update to Windows Live One Care. Now when I open windows mail it gets stuck on the authorizing screen and I get this message Account: 'shawmail', Server: 'shawmail', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC19
I have 2 e-mail accounts and the 2nd one works fine but the first one does not, I have not changed anything, it was working fine yesterday. I even deleted and remade both accounts and it still does the same thing. If I leave windows mail open eventually it will get past the authorizing and it will receive the e-mails but it is very slow on my regular e-mail address.
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Mar 23, 2008
The issue is that ever since I installed Vista, it will randomly, without warning, hang for about 30 seconds and then resume without issue.
- Reinstall Vista (done)
- Change SATA to ATA (not possible with Dell Bios)
- Defrag HD (Done)
- Check for Hardware Errors (No issues under XP for 2 years)
- Virus program (does this when AVG isn't installed)
- Drivers (all up to date drivers, froze before nvidia/creative drivers
installed)
- Bios (Latest bios version from Dell)
I have watched the reliability monitor and event viewer and I am not seeing any errors at the time of freezing. I really think this issue needs to be addressed because in my search of these forums and the internet, MANY people are having these problems, but no one is explaining it well enough and so many of the answers are unrelated.
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Sep 29, 2009
i've got sony vaio vs36GJ it had mcafee on itself not good one my laptop has vista home premium x64 i've install nod32 version 4 its hang too much there nothing i can do alt+cntrl+del not working only way to get throught is forcing to shut down i don't know what to do
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Mar 23, 2008
I did a hard install of SP1 over two hours ago on my desktop. The system installed and configured updates-went up to 100%..however...it is still hanging-what I mean by that is I am still on the blue installation screen and it says "Configuring Updates-do not turn off computer" I am not sure what to do...should I just shut it off and restart?
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Dec 18, 2008
I recently purchased a nice shiny new HP Pavilion DV7-1130US. It came with vista ultimate x64 SP1. I wanted XP but that was not an option. For the first few hours it was very buggy and explorer was hanging alot. After awhile it got better and for about 2 weeks i was really starting to enjoy my lovely new laptop. Well today, for from what I can see no reason whatsoever, my laptop has become unusable. My symptoms are similar to those discussed in this thread: Windows Explorer Crashes I boot up, log in, everything seems ok for the first 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Then explorer freezes and I cant access or use any applications, everything goes into "not responding" mode, and none of my clicks register. Then 2-5 minutes go by and all my clicks happen at once. It seems like explorer restarts once or twice during this too as I get the "ding" sounds.
I have also received some memory errors, and fatal application crashes from various applications. I cant even do anything, I tried to get to system restore in the first 30 seconds after boot up when the computer is usable, but i cant make it and am not sure where system restore is located. I love my new laptop but I am so frustrated right now that I could smash it against the wall. I blame vista, as I am using an old ass XP desktop right now that works absolutely fine, never ever crashes, yet my shiny new fancy HP dual core 4 gigabytes of ram vista x64 bit laptop is ****ing worthless............
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Apr 18, 2008
When you click shut down, Vista doesn't shut down, or do anything for that matter. If it cannot terminate all processes, in about 3 to 5 minutes it will pop up this screen that say like "this process is hanging, click here to terminate and shut down" or something like that.
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Oct 19, 2008
I have been trying to run Windows Live One Care Safety Scanner (beta for vista) I can successfully install and run it but when it performs the scan and it reaches 97% completion the program hangs. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software. I thought the problem might have arisen due to vista's securitythen reinstall th features so I first made sure to run internet explorer browser when I re-downloaded the scanner files. However, this has made no difference... the scanner still installs and runs but again upon reaching 97% completion hangs.
I am interested to know if anyone else has encountered this problem and better still if anyone knows how to resolve it.
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Oct 18, 2008
I cant find the screensaver manager.
When I do right click in the desktop, then Personalization, the Screen Saver option don't appear.
I can reinstall this?
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Oct 14, 2008
I am running Vista Home Premium x64 with a Microsoft wireless mouse and keyboard combo. Back in Feb 2008 I downloaded the optional "HID Non-user Input data filter" update and installed it. This fixed my screensaver not working issue. Then, 4 days ago my screensaver stopped working again. In my system I see that the update is still installed. The only thing that changed is I upgraded my Norton Antivirus 2008 to 2009, and installed one of the standard "Automatic Updates" for Microsoft Windows. Does anyone have any clue as to why or how to fix it again?
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Mar 23, 2008
This question has been asked by many people, but somehow no solutions have been offered. It's about the screensaver not working anymore. My os is home premium 32 bit. I checked the Preview which is working, I checked the settings which is 5 min., and I checked the power settings which is 15 min.on battery and 30 min. on plug-in. I have it on Performance Setting. My laptop is 4 months old. I have over 65 GB left on C: and 5.6 GB left on my D: drive.
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Mar 23, 2008
Just got a new PC with Vista and my screensaver does not work. A previous thread indicated that it could be caused by a wireless mouse. I have a MS Intellipoint 4.1. Is this the cause of the problem?
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Jul 17, 2008
Got a totally different screensaver problem than found by searching the forum.
I got my screensaver to engage after 15 minutes without any mouse movement.
The thing is, if I am watching a movie, the screensaver will start after the 15 minutes into the movie. Even if I leave a game in the pause mode to get something like food, the screensaver will engage after the 15 minutes. No matter what screensave I use, it still happens.
Why is this happening?
I'm using Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
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Jun 20, 2008
I have a Dell Inspiron running Vista. Had no problems until recently when the screensaver started to refuse to work. Even when I go to screen saver settings and select preview the screensaver just comes on for less than a second and goes off again.
I have got a wireless mouse but have always used it, I have tried unplugging it, but to no avail. I have also tried a selective startup with only microsoft programs on startup, but still no joy.
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Sep 5, 2009
I accidentally deleted some .scr files from the system32 folder and now i can't install any screen savers nor use the ones i didn't delete. (it just shows "none" on the change screens saver menu). I remember deleting a small (5kb or so) .scr file which i assume caused the problem.
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Jul 30, 2008
I updated and downloaded the patch and it started to work instantly, But later that same night after running a handful of other applications it stopped working and the screensaver won't start. I can go and preview it but it won't start once I am idle. I know that this is a ridiculus issue but my wife loves to see all our family photos as the screensaver.
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May 16, 2009
This is my first post. I tried to post before but I can't locate it so I will try again.Plaese bear with me. I have a new Dell Inspiron 531S that I have connected to my old ViewSonic VA720 monitor. I am running Vista Home Premium. My problem is that i cannnot get Screensaver to work. No matter which dispaly or time I choose Nothing happens. It's more agrivating than anything else but I would like to be able to egt it to work.
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May 15, 2010
I somehow have managed to delete my default vista screensaver , u know the one that says windows vista and does that aero animation, i was wondering if someone could tell me how to install it back from the dvd or maybe download it from somewhere,coz i have searched in my windows folder and it is not there,and i really like that screensaver the basic one.
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Sep 25, 2008
I have tried repeatedly to fix my screensaver. It will not even turn on manually by clicking preview. All I get is a black screen for a few seconds and then back to the display options. I have tried different screen savers and none of them work.
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Jun 28, 2008
After Installing Vista SP1 for MS update, my screensaver does not work,...It's set to come on, but nothing happens..Anyone else have this trouble?
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Mar 1, 2009
Hi - I downloaded an XP port of the Vista Bubbles screensaver which is my all time favourite screensaver.
Unfortunately the settings dialog does not work on XP, but the person who ported it gave some registry entries that can be modified manually to change the Bubbles options.
Here's the registry path, followed by the entries the author specifies.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionScreensaversBubbles
- SpanMultiMon [DWORD] 0/1
- SphereDensity [DWORD] int
- Radius [DWORD] int
- TurbulenceNumOctaves [DWORD] int
- TurbulenceSpeed [DWORD] int
- TurbulenceForce [DWORD] int
- ShowBubbles [DWORD] 0/1
- MaterialGlass [DWORD] 0/1
- ShowShadows [DWORD] 0/1
My problem is that none of the entries above change the number of bubbles displayed by the screensaver! I thought 'SphereDensity' might but whatever value that's changed to results in my getting just one bubble, when I delete the registry entry of SphereDensity completely I'm back to what I presume is the default number of bubbles (that being a lot!).
Can someone take a look at the Bubbles screensaver registry entry on Vista for me please and let me know if there is an entry that sounds like it might control the number of bubbles displayed? If you first turn the bubbles screensaver on and change the number of bubbles to say, 7, when you look in the registry you may only have to look down the values column for 7. Watch out - if you choose a number greater than 9 then the hex number will be displayed, 9 and under are the same in decimal and hex.
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Oct 22, 2007
I am unable to get the Screensaver to work on my laptop that has Vista. Any thoughts on how I can get it to work? I have taken it back for service and no one can figure it out.
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Oct 16, 2008
This is how to configure the logon screensaver to use PhotoScreensaver to display images at the Windows Vista logon screen.
1. Begin with a new Vista image.
2. Put the PC on the network and logon as Administrator.
3. Right click on the new desktop, click Personalize, Screen saver
4. Select Photos and change the Wait time to 1 minute (for quicker test)
5. Click Preview to make sure it works, click Apply, OK
6. Wait 1 minute and allow the Screen saver to run once.
7. Escape out of the Screen saver and return to the logged on desktop.
8. Click Start, in the Search bar type Regedit and open the Registry editor.
9. Expand HKEY_USERS
10. Expand the top S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx key
11. Navigate down to SoftwareMicrosoftWindows Photo GallerySlideshowScreensaver
12. Right click on FolderPath and Modify to C:UsersPublicPictures
13. Navigate back up to SoftwareMicrosoftWindows Photo Gallery
14. Right click on the Windows Photo Gallery key and click Export and give it the name of Photo and save to the desktop
15. Navigate back to HKEY_USERSS-1-5-21xxxx-xxxxControl PanelDesktop
16. Right click on the Desktop key and click Export and give it the name of 521Desktop and save to the desktop
17. Close Regedit and return to the Desktop
18. Right click on the exported Photo.reg and click on Edit
19. When the file opens in Edit mode, highlight the entire S-1-5-21-xxxxx-xxxx string and copy (Ctrl+C)
20. Click on Edit, Replace
21. In Find what: press Ctrl+V to enter the entire S-1-5-21-xxxx key name
22. In Replace with: enter .DEFAULT (yes, include the dot)
23. Click File, Save as and name the edited file DefaultPhoto (needs to remain .reg NOT .txt)
24. Repeat the process of editing Photo.reg and this time edit to replace the S-1-5-21-xxxx key name with S-1-5-19
25. Save this edited file as Photo519 (needs to remain a .reg NOT .txt)
26. Repeat the process of editing the 521Desktop.reg file and save one edited file as 519Desktop with the respective edits (find & replace w/ S-1-5-19); save a second edited file as DefaultDesktop with the respective edits (find & replace w/ .DEFAULT)
27. Right click on the PhotoDefault.reg file (on the Desktop) and click Merge, Continue, Yes, OK
28. Right click on the Photo519.reg file (on the Desktop) and click Merge, Continue, Yes, OK
29. Right click on the 519Desktop.reg file (on the Desktop) and click Merge, Continue, Yes, OK
30. Right click on the DefaultDesktop.reg file (on the Desktop) and click Merge, Continue, Yes, OK
31. Continue in Regedit and Expand HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop
32. In the Desktop settings (in the right pane) Right click on ScreenSaveTimeOut and Modify the time to desired length of time
33. Repeat the process in HKEY_USERSS-1-5-19Control PanelDesktop and use the same time entered for .DEFAULT
34. Close regedit, restart the PC. Once the PC is at the logon screen, wait for the photos to appear after the amount of time set (in ScreenSaveTimeOut).
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Jun 20, 2008
I am running Windows Vista and I have a cordless mouse which requires a little gadget into slot a USB port. My screensaver does not work when this little gadget is plugged in.
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Apr 28, 2009
How do I get a screensaver working in Vista?
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Nov 27, 2009
the screensaver wont activate in vista basic on dell vostro laptop it was working before,it should come on after 5 min, have tried all the screen savers and as soon as i try to preview them they go on for a second and then go off i dont have any wireless devices connected i did have a keyboard and mouse but uninstalled them and went back to the usb wired ones ive tried getting the screen savers to work by leaving on the 'Microsoft HID Non-User Input Data Filter update' and turning it off (it uninstalled when i got rid of mouse and keyboard, i tried disabling the touchpad, i disabled the hid thing in services msc, i also tried just using the turn off display in power options but that doesnt work either, i even tried reenabling everything in windows features, and i tried rolling back the graphics card driver,but none of these things work i am totally at a loss because the screen just stays on so i have to just shut down and restart the pc everytime i want to use it and this always brings up problems with modem and so on i also read somewhere that Dell Media Experience, Power DVD and ehtray.exe cause problems but i have none of these running at startup.
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