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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows Screen Saver?
Message-ID: <10709.26f3804e@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 90 13:38:21 GMT
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My own experiences with screen savers (I haven't used a Windows one yet,
though) have not been very pleasant.  A VGA screen saver caused Turbo C to
crash on me, necessitating a reboot, several times.  On a Macintosh, a screen
saver caused file transfers to abort as soon as the saver kicked on, a half
hour into the transfer, causing me to waste several hours before I figured out
the cause.  I also see talk about various bugs in different versions of Windows
screen savers.  I would like to use one, but if they cause problems like I have
mentioned above, it isn't worth it.  

My questions are: do Windows screen savers operate reasonably trouble-free?  
Will a file transfer be messed up when the saver turns on? 

Thank you,

Bryon Daly
daly@ecs.umass.edu