Screen saver tries to start during videos

When watching a full-screen video, my screen saver slide show tries to start. It blacks out the screen and the pictures start showing after a few seconds. That didn't happen with my XP and Windows 7 installations. Any ideas as to what's happening?

Thanks,

jbacinti

Usually the media player program disables screensaver when watching a video. Have a look at the settings for something relevant. I usually disable screensaver to avoid such issues.

spapakons said:

Usually the media player program disables screensaver when watching a video. Have a look at the settings for something relevant. I usually disable screensaver to avoid such issues.

My Windows Media Player doesn't have the "allow screen saver during playback" box checked. Any other ideas?

Until you find what's wrong, you can manually disable screensaver during video watching, then enable it again. I have it always disabled to avoid such issues.

I'll try that and meanwhile I hope someone else has an idea too.

Thanks.