joe43wv Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 I have a co-workers system that has Windows 8.1 on it and the screensaver won't activate. I have uninstalled and resintalled the video card drivers to see if that resolves it but it didn't. I did notice that the mouse flashes a round circle every few seconds so I don't know if that is causing the screensaver not to kick on or not. Has anyone else ran into this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosProbie Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) I had a similar issue about a month ago and turned out it was a damaged system file (shell32.dll) once I corrected that the scr saver worked again..DP Edited November 30, 2013 by DosProbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe43wv Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Thanks DosProbie. What did you do to resolve it. I have several Windows 8 machines I can copy the file from and paste it over or is there a different method you recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe43wv Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 DosProbie, how did you repair the damaged file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosProbie Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I just replaced the shell32.dll with a working one..DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosProbie Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 If you pm me I can send you the working file patcher that I used..DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe43wv Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 DP that fixed part of the issue. The preview will now work but as soon as that mouse flashes the preview goes away. Any ideas on what is causing the mouse to flash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Sounds like either an app or service that is running. General answer I know, but... Have you checked to see if you have anything running that might cause it?Cheers and Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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