Will not save as default screensaver.
 

Installed screensaver but will not save as the default screensaver.

Example..I change the activation time to 1 minute and click apply,

come back 10 minutes later and no screensaver.

I click on the settings/ screensaver tab and it shows that no screensaver is selected.

I am not stupid when it comes to these sorts of things but this is just not working.

Any suggestions?

Have tried uninstalling and re-installing several times to no avail.

System specs:
P4 2.8
Radeon 9800 Pro
512Mb Corsair XMS
Windows XP Pro

Yep just tried again....re-installed and clicked "Apply" after changing the settings.

Re-booted comp and went to the screensaver tab and it says "No screensaver selected."

All other screensavers still work fine and appear in the screensavers tab after I click apply / exit and then go back into the screensavers tab.

Just the Marine one does not show again.

Open C:\Windows\System32

Rename Marine Aquarium 2.scr to MarineAquarium2.scr (removing the spaces)

I hope this will be fixed in a future version of the Aquarium.

My friend you are a legend..

Thank you this fixed the problem.

Now im off to find Nemo.

THANKYOU

That only happens to selective people? How come mine is Marine Aquarium 2.scr (with spaces) and works.

You're running XP?

Yes-

Windows XP Home Ed.
2.66Ghz
512 MB DDR Ram
150 GIG HD
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

I just noticed a funny thing. It is still written to the registry in good old DOS (8.3) notation: C:\WINDOWS\System32\MARINE~2.SCR. That is using Windows XP home.
When I change the registry key to C:\WINDOWS\System32\Marine Aquarium 2.scr it won't select the MA2 and it reverts to none. Clue maybe... ?

btw Windows9x does not write this setting to the registry but to system.ini (or maybe win.ini, I forget).

Mine is in C:\WINNT\system32

Well, that would depend on the preference of the person who installed your OS. What I mean is the "MARINE~2.SCR" part. Windows XP still supports DOS notation of course, but maybe those experiencing this problem have somehow disabled that.

Oh yea hmm.. I don't know about that :D

"C:\WINDOWS\System32\Marine Aquarium 2.scr" (with the quotes)

Morgan,

When I set that registry value including quotes it does not work either. Anyway, display properties configuration does not use quotes but still uses DOS names. Silly Micro$oft!

By the way, this is the registry key that contains your current screensaver: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\SCRNSAVE.EXE

And I also found that you can indeed tweak Windows to disable 8.3 filenames. See screenshot made from Xteq X-setup.

Now if someone who experiences this problem could download X-setup and check the shown setting to test my theory...