Screensaver not working in Windows 8.1

I found this issue with my new HP Desktop after only using it for a couple weeks. I've tried everything! FINALLY FOUND THE ISSUE!!! My wireless HP printer worked but would not scan to the computer, would only scan from HP's web based controls. I completely uninstalled all of my printer files and did a generic printer install from control panel. Generic icon is all that shows now, but everything is working perfectly! Scan to computer works as does my screensaver and sleep mode.

    Makes no sense, after all these years you would think Microsoft would finally have this all figured out, but I guess not................................After Win Vista, who would think this would all still be an issue.

I have spent the last 4 hours trying to figure this out thank you so much your solution worked, I want my XP back! Never had any issues of any kind like this.

Hi Dean,

Thank you for sharing the information with us.

Try this and check.

Make sure you have the following power settings set on your laptop.

• In the Power options window, set "Choose when to turn off the display" to never.
• Set "Change when the computer sleep" to Never.

Set the Screensaver timing to 2 minutes and check.

Note: This setting is just to check if the screensaver works with this setting.

I would suggest you to try loading a different screen saver and check if the issue persists:

How to use screen savers

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/using-screen-savers

Download and install the chipset drivers from the computer manufacture’s website, this might help you.

I had a brand new laptop with 8.1 installed and I could not make my screen saver work.  Setting everything to "NEVER" worked for me, Thank You for your advice.

Hi Dean

I'm jumping into this situation because for the last few days my screensaver is also not working.

I updated to windows 8.1 about 10 months ago and my saver was working fine until just recently.

Now I get a blank blue screen and can't get the computer out of it unless I hit the restart button my tower. I tried calling up the screensaver menu but it won't allow me make any changes and it just sits there with the little circle going around and around!

There must have been an update from Microsoft within the last few weeks that caused this.

I'd be very happy just to turn the darn screensaver OFF but seems I'm unable to do this.

Let's all scream very loud at Microsoft - you would think they'd at least acknowledge this BIG problem and help the customers who rely on them. But there you go - that's what happens when you have a monopoly on the market.

Marlene

HI luchuc.  Well here is what I found out.  I was dealing with Logitech over this issue with the solar app not working along with the Screen Saver.  They had me go through a bunch of trial and error stuff and the last one was to load the three programs onto my Laptop, (Dell) using the Logitech Keyboard and mouse to see if the same problem occurred, and it didn't.

So after this happened they considered the issue resolved as it worked ok on one system but not with the HP all In one Computer.  The result was that the issue had to be with HP, not with Logitech.  To work on this with HP seemed to me to be a waste of time, so I don't use the Solar app at all.