Re: Screen Saver Error message

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 05/17/04


Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:46:57 -0600

What happens if you select a different screen saver?

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"Mary" wrote:
|I have a machine that everytime the screen saver tries to
| start I got the following error
| Application popup: logon.scr - Application Error : The
| application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142).
| Click on OK to terminate the application.
| The screen saver does not come up but the computer is
| locked.  Any ideas as to what may be causing this.  The
| computer is Windows 2000 Pro sp3
| Thanks 


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