Just got a new Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium installed. I can't
believe there are only 7 screensavers. Is this true or am I missing some?
Also, none of the screensavers work except the Windows Logo. I get the
message "The screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video card or
one that's compatible with Direct3D" on all the others. This is a brand new
Dell notebook.

I guess I have 2 questions. How many screensavers does Vista Home Premium
come with and why don't the ones I have work. Doesn't make sense that I
would need to install a new video card on a brand new machine.

Thanks for you help.

Bobby

st year, lol

Bobby, the problem is with Dell.
They , Dell and their ilk, have been cutting corners on the manufacturing
side. You see some adverts from them for 1Gig of RAM shared with Graphics;
what a joke.

They had years to prepare for Vista, but they and their suppliers have not
bothered, in the hardware and software side, to make compatible hardware and
software for Vista.
They are more interested in selling a pink, blue or green laptop.
By the way, Dell is whinging that they ONLY turned over $60 billion last year.

Your warranty is handled by Dell, so ring them and bore it up them!
Microsoft only covers full version retail disks warranty.

"Bobby Z" wrote:

> Just got a new Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium installed. I can't
> believe there are only 7 screensavers. Is this true or am I missing some?
> Also, none of the screensavers work except the Windows Logo. I get the
> message "The screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video card or
> one that's compatible with Direct3D" on all the others. This is a brand new
> Dell notebook.
>
> I guess I have 2 questions. How many screensavers does Vista Home Premium
> come with and why don't the ones I have work. Doesn't make sense that I
> would need to install a new video card on a brand new machine.
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Bobby

I got a Vaio laptop recently. I went to Control Panel-Personification-Screen
Saver and found about 10 screensavers. They all seemed to work. The
Pictures(Photos) screensaver at first shows an error but after opening it up,
browsing, and choosing a photo file, it works fine.

Yeah, there are a lot less screensaver choices with Vista. I don't know why.
Maybe they decided to save disc space for all that crapware the manufacturers
are using to load-up their machines.

oscar

"Bobby Z" wrote:

> Just got a new Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium installed. I can't
> believe there are only 7 screensavers. Is this true or am I missing some?
> Also, none of the screensavers work except the Windows Logo. I get the
> message "The screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video card or
> one that's compatible with Direct3D" on all the others. This is a brand new
> Dell notebook.
>
> I guess I have 2 questions. How many screensavers does Vista Home Premium
> come with and why don't the ones I have work. Doesn't make sense that I
> would need to install a new video card on a brand new machine.
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Bobby

Here's a god send. . .

IF YOU LIKE OLDER XP Screen Savers, Especially the Media Center 2005/06
screen savers,
hit up this directory

C:\Windows\System32

Sort by type

Go to the screen savers.

ALL OF THEM WORK IN VISTA

I JUST PUT THE "SPACE & AQUARIUM" Screen savers in my vista premium laptop
(-:
thought it might be useful

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"oscar" <oscar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DB4224DB-5C68-4846-9616-79AECC7B29AF@microsoft.com...
>I got a Vaio laptop recently. I went to Control
>Panel-Personification-Screen
> Saver and found about 10 screensavers. They all seemed to work. The
> Pictures(Photos) screensaver at first shows an error but after opening it
> up,
> browsing, and choosing a photo file, it works fine.
>
> Yeah, there are a lot less screensaver choices with Vista. I don't know
> why.
> Maybe they decided to save disc space for all that crapware the
> manufacturers
> are using to load-up their machines.
>
> oscar
>
> "Bobby Z" wrote:
>
>> Just got a new Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium installed. I can't
>> believe there are only 7 screensavers. Is this true or am I missing
>> some?
>> Also, none of the screensavers work except the Windows Logo. I get the
>> message "The screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video
>> card or
>> one that's compatible with Direct3D" on all the others. This is a brand
>> new
>> Dell notebook.
>>
>> I guess I have 2 questions. How many screensavers does Vista Home
>> Premium
>> come with and why don't the ones I have work. Doesn't make sense that I
>> would need to install a new video card on a brand new machine.
>>
>> Thanks for you help.
>>
>> Bobby