RE: Mersenne: W2K screen saver vs. Prime95

[Russel Brooks]

> On my Win2K boxes here the "default" screen saver is a blank screen. It
> doesn't look that way when you select it, but it is. I just tested it and it
> didn't steal a single cpu cycle from Prime95.

Yeah, it doesn't look like a blank screen so I didn't try it.
Thanks for the pointers to the "Default" screen saver, I'm now
using it so Prime95 gets the max cycles when I'm away.

Cheers... Russ

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Re: Mersenne: W2K screen saver vs. Prime95

[Steve]

>From my experience with dozens of cases on all flavors of Windows, the power
save mode has no effect on screensavers.  They will continue running with
the monitor off. The ones with sound effects (such as "underwater") continue
producing their noises. If anyone has any ideas on how to make it otherwise,
I would love to hear them.

Steve Harris

>
>Note: If you have power saving on your monitor, once your monitor turns
off,
>any running screen saver is "supposed to" stop running.  Whether that's the
>case or not for many screen savers, I have no idea.
>
>Besides the blank screen, another good, low impact saver is the "logon"
one.
>
>Aaron
>
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