http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Disabling screen savers en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:51:13 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-25006 Sun, 18 May 2008 16:08:31 +0000 Lighthouse 25006@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>OK. The OP has not come back yet to say if flipss.exe now works for him. So can we hang on a bit please? :)<br /> ps I'll get back to you on the other stuff.</p> <p>I know the problem.<br /> You cannot stop a screensaver from automatically cutting in, if you are watching a live feed to your browser.<br /> You can if you are streaming it to a Media Player (most of the time).<br /> thus flipss is needed.<br /> Fini mois </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-25005 Sun, 18 May 2008 15:59:35 +0000 whs 25005@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@ScottW, You are too kind. I don't observe any signs of "senile". But the short time memory is no more what it used to be 25 years ago. If my bones would work as well as my brain, things would be nearly perfect.<br /> @Lighthouse, as I said: I set the power management to "never" and the screen saver timing to 60 minutes and have never encountered the problem that was stated by the poster. But maybe it is a different case. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24999 Sun, 18 May 2008 15:37:20 +0000 Lighthouse 24999@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yes it would. But you were not asking that. So I presumed whs was talking about something else. So there </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24997 Sun, 18 May 2008 15:22:00 +0000 ScottW 24997@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@Lighthouse, I mentioned power management above to put my display to sleep. That happens when watching a long video and the answer that WHS gave would prevent the screen from blanking.</p> <p>@whs, you're not crazy or senile. (Lighthouse might be, but don't tell him I said so. Shhh!) :-D </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24968 Sun, 18 May 2008 12:51:54 +0000 Lighthouse 24968@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>So I keep finding out :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24967 Sun, 18 May 2008 12:50:28 +0000 whs 24967@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hmm, I thought it does. You never stop learning. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24959 Sun, 18 May 2008 11:33:49 +0000 Lighthouse 24959@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@whs. The Power Options do not affect the screensaver settings. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24867 Sat, 17 May 2008 18:45:48 +0000 whs 24867@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>If you set everything (Display and Sleep) to "Never" in the Power Options, you should not run into this problem. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24863 Sat, 17 May 2008 18:34:15 +0000 mpc104 24863@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i have a dell laptop,when i watch a movie i just set the screensaver to none or run up the time to something high like 1000 mins. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24816 Sat, 17 May 2008 14:32:21 +0000 ScottW 24816@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I don't use a screen saver, but power management instead. My screen just goes black, but the audio keeps playing! I've gotten used to just jiggling the mouse every now and then, just like The Geek mentions in the article:<br /> <a href='http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-shortcut-icon-to-disable-enable-the-screensaver/'>http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-shortcut-icon-to-disable-enable-the-screensaver/</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24766 Sat, 17 May 2008 10:33:32 +0000 Lighthouse 24766@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>After some intensive searching. I found Flipss.exe available here<br /> <a href='http://qix.dk/Downloads/Tools/'>http://qix.dk/Downloads/Tools/</a><br /> This is a site I do not know. So download at your own risk</p> <p>Edit. I just downloaded it, and no problems so far. Seems clean</p> <p>EDIT. It's now back at the official site<br /> <a href='http://www.jddesign.co.uk/products/freeware/flipss.zip'>http://www.jddesign.co.uk/products/freeware/flipss.zip</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24763 Sat, 17 May 2008 09:26:22 +0000 Velvetkisses15 24763@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>no its online no media player is needed it stays within the browser. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24761 Sat, 17 May 2008 09:25:10 +0000 Lighthouse 24761@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yes. But do you feed them into a media player to watch (WMP, VLC etc)? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24760 Sat, 17 May 2008 09:22:32 +0000 Velvetkisses15 24760@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i watch them on sites like hulu.com and tudou.com </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24758 Sat, 17 May 2008 09:10:58 +0000 Lighthouse 24758@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Do you watch them from within the browser, or use a media player? If so which one? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/disabling-screen-savers#post-24757 Sat, 17 May 2008 09:06:14 +0000 Velvetkisses15 24757@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Ive wanted to watch movies online and tv shows and such and the screen saver keeps popping up i tried the one how to on here and the one like to download flipss.exe file said it wasnt there and just took me to a search page is there anyway to get my screen saver disabled other than that way? I have a dell computer so i dont know if thats the problem or if something else is. thank you for your time. </p>