Thread '7.0.28 (x86) Screen Saver Problem'

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brady Send message Joined: 29 Jul 12 Posts: 5	Message 45106 - Posted: 29 Jul 2012, 23:31:01 UTC Hello; The screen saver kicks in and I terminate it via mouse movement or keystrokes. I follow up termination with a quick view in Procexp.exe from sysinternals and the boinc.scr files is remaining in my tasklist and still consumes ticks from the CPU. I noticed this was an issue in the past in 2009 from a search in the forum. Windows XP Pro SP3 (x86) ID: 45106 ·
brady Send message Joined: 29 Jul 12 Posts: 5	Message 45107 - Posted: 30 Jul 2012, 0:01:24 UTC - in response to Message 45106.   Whoops; perhaps I should mention this only occurs when clicking "preview" in display settings. The screen saver does appear to function just fine when it is fired following the timeout. ID: 45107 ·
Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15634	Message 45109 - Posted: 30 Jul 2012, 8:36:26 UTC - in response to Message 45107.   Repeatable with Windows 7, so forwarded to development. Albeit, I suspect this is a Windows bug. It's their preview function that doesn't work correctly. ID: 45109 ·
brady Send message Joined: 29 Jul 12 Posts: 5	Message 45118 - Posted: 30 Jul 2012, 21:31:12 UTC - in response to Message 45109.   Thank you; I must add that the behavior is now occuring when the screen saver fires after the timeout. I'm participating in POEM@Home and Docking. I'm left with two processes both boinc.scr. One is consuming no ticks and the other is consuming <= 50%. ID: 45118 ·
Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15634	Message 45192 - Posted: 8 Aug 2012, 16:19:23 UTC The developers finally had time to look at this, and put in a fix. It will be fixed in BOINC 7.0.34 WINSCR: Fix problem with the screensaver needlessly cycling in preview mode. Ugh. ID: 45192 ·
brady Send message Joined: 29 Jul 12 Posts: 5	Message 45607 - Posted: 9 Sep 2012, 23:00:09 UTC - in response to Message 45192.   Its me again... and now I'm using Windows 7 x64. And... I noticed the problem again. ;) Einstein@home. The screen saver is firing off the system timer and the boinc.scr is remaining resident and using .05 CPU%. Did the previous patch make it into version... 7.0.28 (x64)? ID: 45607 ·
brady Send message Joined: 29 Jul 12 Posts: 5	Message 45608 - Posted: 9 Sep 2012, 23:00:45 UTC - in response to Message 45607.   Whoops, i guess not. haha. I should read the thread before posting. ID: 45608 ·

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