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My desktop does not show my screensavers?

I have downloaded screensavers to my desktop, but they only appear for a few seconds when I log off, and when I turn on my computer, it only shows my program icons on a plain blue background

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  1. You may need to go into your Computer and check in the Control Panel, then your Appearance and Personalizations (may be called something different) and then check your screen settings. You may not have it set long enough or you may not have it set at all, just to click off after a short time.
  2. u dont have to worry because system is bahaving normally.The screen saver remains active until a user enters a keystroke or makes a mouse movement. At that moment, the screen saver closes and the former screen contents are restored, to allow the user to work again. A screen saver is a computer program originally designed to conserve the image quality of computer displays by blanking the screen or filling them with moving images or patterns when the computers are not in use. Most computer programs paint images in the screen. Some of these images (letters, pictures, animations, menus) are usually moving or changing, and never stay in the same place for long. But some portions of the screen are always in the same place, sometimes for hours or even days or months. These sorts of images, continuously drawn in the same place for a long time, could damage the screen because the electron rays always hit the same points on the screen. Damage would consist in poor image quality, and those fixed images could remain "burned in" to the same place like "ghost lines" even if the image eventually changed. This is commonly known as "screen burn". Screen saver programs were originally designed to help avoid these effects by automatically changing the images on the screen when the computer was not in use. They can be usually set up to launch automatically, waiting a specified amount of time after the last keystroke made by a user. Then the screen saver switches the image to black, or sometimes produces some animation effects, thus avoiding any "fixed" images.
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