the new brain and the savior

[sergebroom]

I have a technical question about my new laptop.

I set up its screen saver to kick in after 5 minutes of inactivity. The way to do this was pretty obvious, even for Windows 7. Or so I thought, excerpt that the screen saver isn't coming up. Any idea what step I might be missing? Thanks for your help.

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[marydell.livejournal.com]

Did you set it up with control panel/personalization/screen saver? The "wait ___ minutes" thing should theoretically work. I can test this at home but not at work--group policy settings mean that stuff is greyed out for me.

It's possible that there's a power-saver setting that's overriding or interacting with the screen saver setting...?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I followed your link and went WTF when I realized that this bug has been known for a long time and that one almost needs to be an tech-support person to handle this. I tried the personalization approach, without success. If you can take a look at your home computer tonight, I'd appreciate.

Damned MicroSoft bozos...

[marydell.livejournal.com]

This thread might provide some clues: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7desktop/thread/c91674b0-110d-4503-b7ff-037b6eb507dc