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One final piece of information: The first machine (on which the screensaver worked) does not run the screen saver as logon screensaver: Instead of the direct X error, *this* one states: "The exception unknown software exception (0xc0000005) occured in the application at location 0x00403a4e. Click OK ...

Further details of vista problems: On one vista machine, the screen saver works On a second machine, it works when used as a user, but when used as default logon screensaver, instead of fading image on and off, it fades "direct3d 9.0 is needed to run this screen saver, but can't be found. Please ...

I Vista problem: created a screen saver which works in XP, but in Vista it just gives 'file not found' at the point of selecting the screen saver or double clicking on it and running it. This only happens on some machines, not others. I guess it might be a library or something the screensaver needs ...