I turned the computer on this morning and left it alone. The monitor turned
off. I left the computer alone for a hour and I came back and instead of the
monitor being off, the screensaver was running.

"Unknown" wrote:

> Did you reboot and test it?
> "tkbirdie" <tkbirdie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3AC8D00B-3B91-4561-87EA-B266196DDDFC@microsoft.com...
> > I'm running Windows XP Home. The power options for my computer is set to
> > turn my monitor off after 10 mins - power saving. After 10 minutes,
> > instead
> > of turning the monitor off, it just goes back to the desktop. It was
> > working
> > fine yesterday. I have tried changing the minutes, but it just won't
> > work.
> > Any help would be appreciated. I'll check again tomorrow and see if it
> > happens again. I have recently had Windows XP reinstalled, due to a
> > problem
> > with my computer. Everything was working fine until the monitor problem
> > today.
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