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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?


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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

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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?

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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?

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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

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