ScreenSaver problem

[tal ormanda]

Ever since a month ago i think everytime my screensaver goes on and i hit a button or move the mouse to make it go off it takes 20 seconds+ for it to return to the normal screen. Anything ideas?

Edited September 25, 2005 by tal ormanda

[Nerwin]

what's your computer specs?

[tal ormanda]

specs?

[glent]

cpu speed , ram hard drive , ect

[tal ormanda]

i got Pentium® 4 CPU 2.53GHz

2.52 Ghz, 256MB of RAM

[agonified]

Which screensaver?

[HyperHacker]

I have a similar problem. Sometimes the screen saver just doesn't start. O_o I usually use 3D Pipes but the same has happened with others, even ones I made.

[tal ormanda]

all of the 3-D ones are messed up but thats not what i asked. and my problem is with any screen saver

Edited September 29, 2005 by tal ormanda

[HyperHacker]

Yes, I just thought I'd throw mine in since it's similar. (And for the record, I tried 2D ones, same result.)

BTW, try getting Motherboard Monitor 5 and putting the dashboard in Always On Top mode (right-click it so some buttons show at the side, click the number until it becomes a 2), and add a CPU Usage display. This should keep it on top even during screen savers (if not, my Advanced Windo Menu should do it; just enable Always On Top) so long as they don't change resolution. Then you can watch the display to see if your CPU usage jumps way up.

Alternatively, consider adding sound effects for the Open Program and Close Program events in your sound options; this will tell you when a program starts or closes. This way you can see how long it takes for the screen saver process to actually quit.

[Nerwin]

There could be a process that is running very high or the screen save it self could be using a lot of cpu usage.

BTW, what dose your CPU usage run at? Becasue mine runs at 0-2%.

Edited September 29, 2005 by computerMan

[tal ormanda]

well i use spydocter spyware scanner and it opens everytime i use IE so its really hard to keep it from not opening and it makes my cpu go to 100 each time.

[Andromeda43]

Sounds like a very simple fix to me.

1. Stop using Spyware Dr.

2. Stop using screen savers. At best, they are INVASIVE.

3. Get some more ram. Double what you've got is just about enough for your CPU to run XP without choking.

[HyperHacker]

There are non-spyware screen savers. Not many, but they exist.

[tal ormanda]

what if we are poor

if i can just stop spydocter from running everytime i open IE i would be set

Edited October 2, 2005 by tal ormanda