Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 Problem
Biplab November 27th, 2006
Few months back I bought one Wireless Desktop. But after few days I found that there is a peculiar problem. The screensaver is NOT working. If I remove the Wireless Desktop then the screensaver is back in action. So I could understand that the Wireless Desktop has brought this trouble to my PC. I started finding out it’s solution in Net.
After some searching I found some reference to the problem in the Microsoft site.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913405
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911895
It says that third party dvd launcher service is causing the problem. In my case it was a service from PowerDVD. If you face the same problem, do the following (in Windows XP).
Click Start > Run. Type msconfig and press Enter. Goto Startup tab. Find out pdvdserv.exe and uncheck it. This should solve your problem.
If it does not work, then you can first disable all DVD related services and then enable them one by one to find out the offending process. This is tedious but most effective when you don’t know the exact offending process.
The bottomline is, if you use Wireless Desktop and face similar problem try to disable the DVD launcher process of any 3rd party DVD player you are using. Also read this in more details from Microsoft knowledgebase (Copy paste the URL above in your browser).
But don’t blame me if you face any other problem after disabling the process.
