Windows comes with a lot of personalization options, one of which being the humble screensaver.

However, sometimes the screensaver stops working, leaving you with a blank, boring screen.

Note:If you havent activated Windows, you cant adjust the screensavers controls.

A computer screensaver

External devices such as joysticks, cameras, or headphones could stop your system from triggering the screensaver.

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This is because your system is already in sleep mode before the screensaver should be triggered.

Turn on screensaver

To fix it, you oughta adjust the sleep time or the screensavers wait time.

Go through the steps presented above to change the screensavers wait time.

While its great for a business environment since it doesnt interrupt your speech, it turns off the screensaver.

Change sleep time

To turn off presentation mode, right-clickStartand head toMobility Center.

Then, click theTurn Offbutton belowPresenting.

If you want to check more setting, click theProjectoricon.

Presentation settings

Running the Power troubleshooter could fix the screensaver issues.

The troubleshooter will fix on its own any detected issue.

After that, peek if the screensaver is working.

Power troubleshooter

Launch Command Prompt with administrative rights and use thesfc /scannowcommand to start the scanning process.

The process might take a while so verify that you or anyone else doesnt kill the Command Prompt window.

If it finds any corrupted or damaged files, the SFC will replace them automatically.

Reset power plan

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In this case, reverting the power plans tweaks to defaults should fix the problem.

Here is how you might do it:

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Update display driver

In this situation, you’re free to manually update the display drivers through equipment Manager.

Is your machine Stuck in Screensaver Mode?

If you tried using your mouse and nothing happened,your mouse might be at fault.

have a go at disconnect and reconnect it or check its battery if you are using a Bluetooth mouse.

Additionally, pressing theWindows keyshould help you.

Personalize your rig

Screen savers were developed to keep older monitors from getting burnt.

On CRT monitors, if an image was displayed for a long time, it would get burnt in.