WindowsXP Screen Saver

Jack wrote:

>Do I save any power by using the Screen Saver? If not,
>what benefit am I getting from the Screen Saver?


These days pretty well no benefit. Except to disguise what you were
doing from the eyes of passers by. Screen savers date from the days of
command line systems, like DOS, and CRT monitors, and were to stop the
machine being left always with C:> top left until it burned itself into
the screen.

With a GUI like windows the image is much less high power and the
screens are better. On an LCD it is not a problem at all. What is a
good idea is to use the Power settings to turn the screen off after say
10 mins inactivity - that will save power, and on an LCD will help the
life of the backlight tube


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. XXXX@XXXXX.COM (remove the D8 bit)