Why is my screensaver not working windows 7
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- #Why is my screensaver not working windows 7 windows 7#
Msconfig is a troubleshooting tool - not a startup manager and you are troubleshooting. You could also go into msconfig, Startup tab and see all of your startup programs. Restart and check to be sure the changes "stick" You can change that back later too if it is your desire.
#Why is my screensaver not working windows 7 how to#
You could temporarily uninstall Norton to see how things look - you can always reinstall it again later, right?Ĭlick here to learn how to uninstall NortonĪnother possibility is that you have a hung up Windows update running so to stop that go to Control Panel, Windows update, Change settings and set WU to Nver check for updates, click OK to save the settings and restart your system. If you boot into Safe Mode with Networking those AV programs (and some other things) should not load and your video will be different but if you are able to navigate normally then (in spite of the display being different) then I would take a look at your startup items.Īs you are making adjustments only change one thing at a time and test (reboot) so that if a miracle occurs you will know the reason. You say you have SAS and MBAM installed and those are the free versions, right? I always suspect Norton as the system resource hog. I've attached a Speecy file for someone to look at What do you think is going on? Is my hard drive fixing to go? Additionally, if I should let it enter screen saver mode sometimes it comes back without any problems but most of the time I have to do a restart. Once the system gave me a black screen and did a disc check that said something like "designated free space shows allocated. I have Norton Security, Super Anti-Spyware, Malwarebytes (all versions), and have done scans with various other scanners, and none of them show any problem. If they start popping one by one, then I wait till I can get them to pop instantaneously. If all the icons pop up together I figure the system is ready. To tell if the start-up is completed, I generally right click on the desk top and do a refresh.
It seems to be in a constant loop where the cursor keeps going round and round forever.
#Why is my screensaver not working windows 7 windows 7#
Every time I turn on my Windows 7 unit, it takes it's good ole time to come to a complete stop and let's me use the computer.