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Old 01-31-2009, 05:39 PM   #14
Dale
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
Could you explain the steps to reproduce this? Someone reported this in another thread, but in that case it only happened after the computer had gone into sleep mode, and then tried to go back into screensaving mode.  
Oh, sorry - I misread your comment. Here are the steps.

On the system in question, ONE of the ways to reproduce it is:
Conditions: MarineAquarium3 is *NOT* the current default screensaver.
Riught-click on desktop, go to Properties, go to Screensaver tab, scroll through the list and click on MarineAquarium3. [It's not necessary to click on Apply].

The mini-preview shows as completely black, and the previously-mentioned dialog box appears.

Clicking OK clears out the dialog box, of course.

Hope that helps. As I recall, I ran into one or two other repeatable things that will make the dialog box appear. I can try to re-discover them, if that would be useful.

Oh, I think that dialog box also appeared at the very end of the installation process, when the installation asks "do you want to make this the default screensaver" (or whatever the question is). That's not easy to recreate (although possible).
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