I'm confused. You want your screensaver on and the monitor off? How can that
be?
"tkbirdie" <tkbirdie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8255B718-329D-46A6-A02C-3BC271F6209A@microsoft.com...
>I turned off the screensaver and the monitor turned off. I changed the
> screensaver and the monitor still would not turn off. I want my
> screensaver
> on, as well as the monitor turning off. I do not want to choose one or
> the
> other. How do I fix it? I'm a novice when it comes to computers - the
> simpler the solution, the better.
>
> "tkbirdie" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >