Re: Power Saving.....Working now?

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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:44:25 -0700, "Rhiannon"
<bogus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Since I didn't get any help regarding this subject (on the two different
>posts I made) I thought I'd go ahead a play with settings in the Power
>Options. I found one that for some reason seems to work....I have it set
>for 15 mins. then shut down the monitor and for today, this has worked.
>
>I have a logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. I thought (based on reading
>here in the newsgroup) that it may be a sensitivity to the mouse, but I
>guess not. For whatever reason, it works at the 15mins. point, but no
>others.
>
I had answered this for someone else. Perhaps you missed it.

In your screensaver screen, there is the Power button.

I set all the options to NEVER turn off. Neither the
computer, nor the hard drives, nor the screen ever turns
off.

THEN, when all those are set,

I go back to the screen saver and set it (per screen
saver-- with each screen saver you load, you must reset this
option)

I go to the screensaver screen and select my screen saver,
THEN set it for how long I want the computer to go without
input (mouse or keyboard) before the computer turns on the
screensaver.

While you may think your monitor is off, if your logic is
working, if the monitor were off, you wouldn't see the
screensaver.

How you see your screensaver is that the monitor is on, but
the screensaver has "turned it off".


Also note that MANY screen savers are unstable. I have a
dozen that are cranky. I'd not bother but I enjoy looking at
them. Point being, you will likely have to reset ALL the
above settings every time you change screen savers.

Also bear in mind that should you crash out-- or should you
grow impatient with your computer apparently "hanging", and
you hit "Reset", all those settings you set several
hours/days ago are LOST, and you will have to go back and
reset them.


Tallahassee


>R
>"Rhiannon" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:%23unlfclDGHA.140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I am reposting this under a different title.*display properties/Screen
>>Saver* and Monitor Shutoff
>>
>> I had my display settings set to shut my monitor off after 45 mins. we
>> got
>> a new one at Christmas and I notice that it doesn't seem to work any more
>> (to be honest I don't remember off hand if it was working that way on the
>> other one). One thing it DOES do (that it didn't with the other monitor)
>> is after the screen saver is on, it will automatically turn the screen
>> back
>> on (at the time when it was SUPPOSE to shut it off..screen comes back on),
>> which stays on for the 2 mins (which is what I have it set to) before the
>> screen saver activates,
>>
>> Why won't the screen saver just stay on and the monitor just shut down.
>>
>>
>>
>

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