Screensaver not working in Windows 8.1

I spoke too soon as the issue has come back to rear its ugly head. With the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard software/drivers uninstalled I am having the same issue with the screensaver not working if set higher than 1 minute. This is the case with the Microsoft Mouse and keyboard detection driver in the USB, but using the HID compliant mouse driver. If I remove the USB receiver the screen saver works if set to 5 minutes.

As a test I set the Arc mouse up on a Windows 7 laptop. It worked fine if set it to 5 minutes for the screensaver to turn on. Even with the full feature software and driver.

I'm at a loss now and will resign the fact that If I want a longer screensaver time out than 1 minute I will not be able to use the Microsoft Arc Touch mouse.

If there is an official Microsoft moderator listening it is suggested that this be taken up for development and testing.

Hi Mark,

Thank you for sharing information here, this might help others if they come across same issue.

Having read all the posts on this I think I will give upon this!

I have a brand new computer with 8.1pre-installed and, other than Microsoft Office, have very little third party application installed - printers etc and my screensaver won't work and never has!

Another triumph for Microsoft!

I experienced the issues with the  screensaver on my Yoga 2 Pro, Win 8.1 X64 . If I set the screensaver to 1 minute it worked.  I even adjusted the power options to never sleep and never turn off the display. No matter what I did if I set the screensaver to greater than 1 minute it would not go to screensaver. I read the threads and thought of what I may have installed, software, applications and hardware wise. I recently purchased the Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse that goes through one of the USB ports. I installed the software and drivers for it. Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center (2.3.188.0) for the software and Microsoft USB Dual Receiver Wireless Mouse (Mouse and Keyboard Center) as the driver (9.5.172.0). If the MS Arc Touch is plugged in to the USB  the screensaver does not work past the 1 minute setting. If I remove the MS Arc Touch USB wireless connection I can set the screensaver greater than 1 minute.  So it appears Microsoft has broken the screensaver with the Arc Touch Mouse software/driver. I'm going to uninstall the software and driver to see if that matters and just go with a generic mouse driver. If that does not fix the issue than time to move on and not have a screensaver that turns on past 1 minute.

Appears to be the Microsoft Arc Touch mouse and its software/drivers. I uninstalled and used the generic mouse driver, waited 5 minutes and the screensaver came on.

Not sure if this will help anyone, but now I know what the root cause of my screensaver issue was caused by.

Having read all the posts on this I think I will give upon this!

I have a brand new computer with 8.1pre-installed and, other than Microsoft Office, have very little third party application installed - printers etc and my screensaver won't work and never has!

Another triumph for Microsoft!

Its no problem, mate.  I am not sure how effective it is as it only appeared that I had a single process listed from the first command.

I do understand that it is the nature of forums to where one solution will work for some but not all and I seem to be one of the lucky ones.

If it fails again, I will look into it some more now that I know kind of where to look. After being on Linux for so long (and working for support for the biggest enterprise Linux distribution), I'm a little rusty with my Windows-fu.

Cheers!