Shut off your screen saver when you start a game

Let's say you've invested a lot of time in playing a computer game. Now you want to pause it for a while to do something else, but your screen saver causes your game to freeze up. You can prevent this by shutting off your screen saver before you play a game.

Here's how:

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click the Display icon.
3. Click the Screen Saver tab.
4. In the Screen Saver drop-down menu, click None.