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You're welcome, glad you got it worked out.
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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
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"paglucio" <paglucio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "Michael Solomon (MS-MVP)" wrote:
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>> When if "freezes" does this apply to the entire system as in, if you move
>> the mouse, can you immediately resume or is the system frozen at that
>> time
>> as well.
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>> If this is simply a situation where the screen saver appears to stop it
>> motion or animation there are several possibilities but it really isn't
>> an
>> issue. Possibilities range from activity from background operations, to
>> low
>> memory for the graphics card. Whatever the case, it's simply not a
>> problem
>> as long as the rest of the system is functioning properly.
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>> If however, when you say freeze, the entire system is freezing and you
>> can't
>> immediately resume from the screen saver when this is happening, that's
>> an
>> issue. Please post back with which applies to what is happening here.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Solomon MS-MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>> Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
>> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
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> Thanks Michael for your reply. I found the problem. As per your
> statement
> that it may be a background task causing the problem, I went to my task
> manager and started removing verious applications that run in the
> background. The problem was with a program called Spy Sweeper by Webroot.
> When I stopped it the freezing also stopped.
>
> Gerald Paglucio
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>> "paglucio" <paglucio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5C0C8395-2C7A-4A62-8F38-6AE31EA54122@microsoft.com...
>> > No matter what screen saver I try to use the same thing happens. The
>> > screensaver plays for about 30 seconds then freezes for about 1 second
>> > then
>> > resumes. No other programs on my windows xp home system with sp2
>> > displayes
>> > this behavior. Any suggestions as to what might be causing this
>> > problem.
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