I'm sorry. What I meant was that after the screensaver runs for 10 minutes,
the power saving kicks in and the monitor turns off or is on standby - under
the power saving options in the control panel - turn off monitor, hard disks.
The light on the monitor is orange instead of green.

"Unknown" wrote:

> 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.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
>
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