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  1. 28th July 2014, 08:47 AM #1
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    windows 8 screen saver

    Somehow my screen saver (usually blank) has changed to rainbow colours. No matter ha I try to get it back to blank it won't change. I go into "personalisation" and set it to BLANK but it won't budge. How do I change it? Jim
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  2. 28th July 2014, 03:20 PM #2
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    Is it a legit registered copy of Win8? If it hasn't been authorised/authenticated back to MS then you can't personalise it, and you get the dud rainbow screen saver by default.

    If it is authorised then I dunno !!

    Edit: to say that if you have done major hardware changes (like new motherboard/etc) they you have to re-authenticate
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  3. 28th July 2014, 03:42 PM #3
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    I ended up using the "Desktop Background" option for a "screen saver"
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    sorry but,
    you have a blank screensaver?
    (I realise LED's dont really need one--)
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    Windows 8 was installed when I bought the computer. No program changes either. It just appeared. There is a choice of BLANK for a screen saver which means the screen is plain black.
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    you are up to date with all the windows updates?
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    All up to date. If I have misled everyone it now appears not to be a screen saver problem but what happens when the computer goes into hibernation, which is a low power mode. Can't find any settings to change for this. Jim
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    control panel > power options

    on the left should be menu options that allow you to change what a lot of stuff does...

    i just put mine in high performance mode and it turns all the stuff i dont want off by default
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    Still doing it in high performance mode. What is actually happening is that it goes to the screen saver ok. Then to hibernation. When I wake it it goes to this rainbow screen instead of my desktop, which it used to go to. I then click on the rainbow screen and my desktop then opens normally. It appears to be this extra step but I don't know how it got there, how to remove it or to what part of the program it belongs. Jim
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    Quote Originally Posted by jx2mad View Post
    Still doing it in high performance mode. What is actually happening is that it goes to the screen saver ok. Then to hibernation. When I wake it it goes to this rainbow screen instead of my desktop, which it used to go to. I then click on the rainbow screen and my desktop then opens normally. It appears to be this extra step but I don't know how it got there, how to remove it or to what part of the program it belongs. Jim
    time to use the menu options on the left

    mainly the bottom two i would think
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