Microsoft KB Archive/318449

= PowerPoint Slide Show Turns Off Screen Saver and Ignores System Group Policy =

Article ID: 318449

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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This article was previously published under Q318449



SYMPTOMS
When a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show presentation is running, your screen saver may not start. Note that this symptom may occur even though:
 * You previously specified a screen saver start time (or waiting period) in a system group policy.
 * Your computer has been inactive long enough to start the screen saver.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if the Userenv.dll file is not correctly reading the policy change.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322389 How to Obtain the Latest Windows XP Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

  Date         Time   Version      Size       File name 03-May-2002 12:39               1,371,116  System.adm 02-May-2002 21:06  5.1.2600.44    528,896  User32.dll 02-May-2002 21:11  5.1.2600.44    658,432  Userenv.dll 03-Apr-2002 21:04  5.1.2600.41  1,670,912  Win32k.sys 03-May-2002 12:42  5.1.2600.44    429,568  Winlogon.exe



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows XP Service Pack 1.

Additional query words: kbMgmtAdmin

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbenv kbfix kbsecurity kbsysadmin kbui kbwinxpsp1fix KB318449

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