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DeskScapes 3 failure on return from display turn off or standby

Using DeskScapes 3 on My Vista machine. After returning from a standard times display turn off often I will get a blank background screen. If the computer goes into Standby, on retrun it will always give me a blank screen. Interestingly, by right clicking and bringing up Configure Deskcapes, the correct background will come up by itself.

Dell XPS 420, Windows Vista, AT Radeon HD2600XT

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Do you have pause on battery enabled in Deskscapes?

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Both pause and notify on pause are checked, I hadn't noticed them since my computer is a desktop. I will uncheck them and report back. By the way, this is happening with a dreamscape as well as a static picture using dreamscape to strech across 2 monitors (1 graphic card.)

Update: I unchecked them, and .dream files seem to come back okay, but any static jpg background will always fail after standby, and sometimes after a plain old cycle down of the monitor.

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An alternative plan: auto restart script for Desktop Window Manager

The composition of a script is slightly complicated in order to suppress a window.

STEP1: Make 3 files and place one folder.

file1 - "restartDWM.bat"

start /d "*** folder's full path ***" restartDWM.vbs

file2 - "restartDWM.vbs"

Set ws = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

ws.run "cmd /c restartWDM2.bat",vbhide

file3 - "restartDWM2.bat"

net stop uxsms

Timeout /t 5

net start uxsms

STEP2: Register file1 to task scheduler for start program.

Trigger:

task start: event

log: system

source: Power-Troubleshooter

event ID: 1

I am also the same trouble.

DS can set up wallpaper for every monitor and is convenient.

Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Radeon HD7970

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The cause became clear in my environment.

I insert three monitors in a primary graphics card, and am inserting other one in the secondary card.

The problem was not produced when all four were inserted in the primary card.

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