Thankyou Twayne and Tim for your i/p, I wish I could say all is OK with the
screensaver

I checked the BIOS and cleared Lan activation, etc. I made a new dir for the
"slides" that I run in screensaver mode, I even made new slides, all BMP's.
I have looked at a number of things, yes I looked at power settings -
Monitor off after 20 mins, machine off after 1 hour; yes and I took out the
firewall and AV along with the modem, all out for 24 hours. I think I can
safely rule out vibration, I certainly have no cat or flapping curtains, but
the above and a number of other housekeeping eye's and tee's all dotted,
well the screensaver still does as before in particular, runs for about 10
mins then back to desktop we go.
I have in the back of my mind yet another clean sweep of the C partition,
reformat and all. I really wonder if Win7 is any better than XP in this
regard as I have re-installed XP many, many times, at least of late I use an
image to re-install which saves the humbug of ringing Bill's mob for re
activation.

regards

"David" wrote in message
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I run WinXP SP3. My problem here is the timing of the screensaver. With the
initial delay set at say 10 minutes, well of late windows just does not
play ball on time at all. Sometimes the machine will sit for hours and the
screensaver will not activate, then it may activate after say 15 minutes,
etc, then to add insult to injury, after activation generally it will run
for say 10 minutes, then revert to the desktop. All of the above times are
quite ramdom.

I cannot think as to why I should have this randomness, any ideas please.
Dave