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Disabling screen savers

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  • Started 6 months ago by Velvetkisses15
  • Latest reply from Lighthouse
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Velvetkisses15
Posts: 3

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.

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

Do you watch them from within the browser, or use a media player? If so which one?

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Velvetkisses15
Posts: 3

i watch them on sites like hulu.com and tudou.com

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Yes. But do you feed them into a media player to watch (WMP, VLC etc)?

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Velvetkisses15
Posts: 3

no its online no media player is needed it stays within the browser.

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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After some intensive searching. I found Flipss.exe available here
http://qix.dk/Downloads/Tools/
This is a site I do not know. So download at your own risk

Edit. I just downloaded it, and no problems so far. Seems clean

EDIT. It's now back at the official site
http://www.jddesign.co.uk/prod.....flipss.zip

Posted 6 months ago #
 
ScottW
ScottW
Posts: 2571

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:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....reensaver/

Posted 6 months ago #
 
mpc104
mpc104
Posts: 261

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.

Posted 6 months ago #
 
whs
whs
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If you set everything (Display and Sleep) to "Never" in the Power Options, you should not run into this problem.

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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@whs. The Power Options do not affect the screensaver settings.

Posted 6 months ago #
 
whs
whs
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Hmm, I thought it does. You never stop learning.

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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So I keep finding out :)

Posted 6 months ago #
 
ScottW
ScottW
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@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.

@whs, you're not crazy or senile. (Lighthouse might be, but don't tell him I said so. Shhh!) :-D

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Yes it would. But you were not asking that. So I presumed whs was talking about something else. So there

Posted 6 months ago #
 
whs
whs
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@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.
@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.

Posted 6 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

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? :)
ps I'll get back to you on the other stuff.

I know the problem.
You cannot stop a screensaver from automatically cutting in, if you are watching a live feed to your browser.
You can if you are streaming it to a Media Player (most of the time).
thus flipss is needed.
Fini mois

Posted 6 months ago #
 

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