On 22/03/2021 15:11, Fredxx wrote:
On 22/03/2021 09:47, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:03:43 +0000, Fredxx wrote:

On 21/03/2021 18:20, Roger Mills wrote:

No response so far from the Windows community - maybe uk.d-i-y can
help?

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Subject: Odd screensaver behaviour Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 23:12:05
+0000 From: Roger Mills
Organization: Association of Revolting Peasants Newsgroups:
alt.comp.os.windows-10

I've just set up a new W10 desktop machine with two monitors - the main
one landscape for general use and the second one portrait for
displaying A4 sized documents in actual size. For obvious reasons, the
monitors are configured as "Extended these displays" rather than
"Duplicate these displays".

I've set up a screensaver in the form of a photo slide show. When the
portrait monitor is on the right and the screensaver cuts in, its
screen goes blank and the slideshow takes place on the main (landscape)
monitor - which is fine.

However, when the portrait monitor is on the left and the screensaver
cuts in, the photos are half on each monitor with black space outboard
of them.

Anyone come across this, and any suggestions for fixing it? [OK I could
put the portrait monitor on the right but I really *want* it on the
left].

I read an article that screen savers are being slowly being removed from
Windows as few people use them, preferring to power down the monitor
when not in use. I haven't used a screen saver in years.

There is however still the idea of a locked/unlocked display - and what
it shows.

I have an option when waking up the monitor from sleep you enter your
password. It was normally enabled by default.

If you find "Screen Saver Settings", there is a tick-box for "On resume,
display log-on screen". Mine is unticked.

Not sure if that helps as it's a feature I don't use. I will typically
manually lock the PC. [Win]-L




This used to work fine for me with Win 7/32 Pro but the free upgrade
to Win 10/32 seems to have messed this up. My monitor now goes into
shutdown at the point where a screensaver kicks in. Then moving the
mouse or pressing enter should send a wakeup command to the
monitor but it ignores it. I had to power the monitor off and on, so
I changed it to display a screensaver instead. This does respond to
a mouse/keyboard movement and I have to login again which is how I
prefer it.