 I got a tech tip for you today that might help you if you're having problems with your Windows 10 screensaver or power saving sleep option Hey there NJ route 22.com here with something we don't always do and that's a tech tip And this is a problem. I have been having with my computer. I have a multi monitor setup. It's pretty decent I like it. It's not the fastest. It's not the best chip, but I have very good components and I really like it I just recently got three new 27 inch Monitors, you know, I used to just shut my monitors off before I went to sleep I left my computer running because I just like keeping it running and I would just shut the because the power button was right in front But these new monitors have the power button way in the back And I have to kind of contort my body because I have this wall-mounted Setup for the multi monitors and it would really be inconvenient. So I said, let me just turn the screen saver on and Have the power option set after like whatever 20 minutes half hour The monitors will shut off by themselves But I noticed that Sometime it wasn't working consistently. Sometimes the monitors wouldn't shut off the screen saver wouldn't kick in I'm like, what's going on here? And I would do your usual internet search and There's there's basically about 11 or 12 reasons why it wouldn't work Those are the main reasons that you can read about and I tried those basic steps There's nothing wrong with my system, but I found out what was causing the problem And I think it's frustrating because you can't find Many reasons why something won't work because they're probably not All that popular, uh, it's not doesn't fit the category of it affects everybody I guess it depends on the software and in this case, it's apps It's apps that caused the screen saver not to work Now the first thing I found that was a problem was I used something called the vlc media player A lot of people use it. It's a very powerful multi-purpose video player For doing DVDs, Blu-rays, but I use it to stream network cameras at our house And I leave it running all the time on my screen to look, you know, to keep to monitor what's going on you And that was the culprit because there's a setting inside the advanced settings here You go you go to settings There's a setting in there that in that disables the screen saver by default So you have to go in and click it So you go tools and then preferences Then you click the bottom left radio button where it says all and that'll switch it from basic preferences to advanced preferences And then you go scroll the left panel all the way down to the bottom and click video And once you click video, there is a setting right there in the middle that says disable screen saver uncheck that box And now the vlc media player will not disable your screen saver or the power settings on your computer Now if you're watching a dvd and you don't want to touch the computer you have to re-click that so that your screen saver doesn't kick in So we solved the problem with the vlc Media player and it worked for a while and then it happened again Like the screen saver wouldn't work and the power the monitor And the power to the monitors didn't shut off And I discovered there was another app that caused an issue and that was my video editor We happen to use phil mora Here for our cheap little videos. We're not doing any high quality premiere work I don't have the time for that. I need something a little simpler I'm probably going to start using da Vinci resolve, but I'm not sure if this video editor problem applies to adobe premiere Or da Vinci resolve, which are the two other popular video editors So no matter why it doesn't matter if my if i'm in the middle of editing a video Or if I just have the app open whether it's on screen or minimize the screen saver or power options do not work So if I want my screen savers to work, I have to shut phil mora down So that's something these people don't tell you in these Helpful articles that you find on your google search results But lastly, you know, I've noticed that I needed to quickly change my screen saver from like one minute off To maybe like when I'm working maybe 20 or 30 minutes before it kicks in because it's annoying if it kicks in every time You stop touching the mouse or keyboard and there's a way to put a quick launch icon on your desktop for the screen saver And because you have to either go into the search bar and type screen saver every time I just want to click an icon set it and close it Here's how you make a handy quick launch button You right click on your desktop in windows 10 and then select shortcut and then you give it a name I called it screen saver And there's a little command here that you put in as the target I'll put it up on the screen here But it'll be in the comments and in this blog post on njv22.com as well But it's c colon backslash windows slash system 32 slash run dll 32.exe Shell 32.dll comma control underscore run dll Desk dot cpl comma comma one and then when you click that it'll just take you right to your Screen saver and that's that so that's a quick way to save a few seconds in a hassle If you like our tech tip, please hit the bell and subscribe And maybe every now and then we'll throw some new nuggets in there to help anybody out So that's it. Have a good day