windows 7 screen saver and desktop not working
about a week ago my icons on my desk top stopped working if i let my machine go to screen saver. i would try to click on them and they would not highlight or respond. i could still access the programs thew the start up and all the main programs but no icons would work. then a day or so later i noticed that my screen saver would not start so my desktop was just up all the time. i don't know how to report or fix this issue.
September 25th, 2010 11:55am

Hmm - couple of things here. Firstly, if you change the theme on Windows 7, the screensaver resets back to NONE so you have to manually change that each time. As for the desktop unresponsiveness, I would do the following: Update to the latest graphics driver (from the GPU vendor) Update to the latest version of the DirectX runtime Update all browser plugins (Flash, Shockwave, Java, Silverlight) for all installed browsers Update the system BIOS (may be unnecessary, but shouldn't hurt - famous last words!) Then, shut down all your applications, let the screensaver initialise and then see whether you have the same issue. If not, see whether having any particular application open in the background causes the problem to recur. If you've done all those updates and tests and the problem is still happening, might be time to start checking out the Event Viewer ;-) Good luck :-)
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September 26th, 2010 5:53pm

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