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screen saver missing
Name: george jones Date: September 17, 2008 at 13:39:54 Pacific OS: winXP home CPU/Ram: 512MB Product: HP
Comment:
My screen saver has disappeared from my control panel display properties. How can I get it back? Thanks.
Name: Rios Date: September 17, 2008 at 15:08:20 Pacific
Reply:
Well when you go on properties does it say screen saver? You might have locked it.
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Response Number 2
Name: toast (by NoIdea) Date: September 17, 2008 at 15:17:45 Pacific
Reply:
Have a look in here KEY: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System DWORD: NoDispScrSavPage = Should be a value of 0 (zero)
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Response Number 3
Name: Tufenuf Date: September 17, 2008 at 16:54:28 Pacific
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george jones, If you mean that the Screensaver tab is missing from the Display properties and are not comfortable editing the registry go to the link below and scroll down to line 285 (right column) and click on "Restore All Display Tabs" to download a reg file fix. Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it and answer yes to the import prompt. It should correct your problem.
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