Os x 10.8.3 freezes when changing screen saver

I recently installed 10.8.3. One of the glitches is that when I attempt to change the screen saver, my computer freezes. Is there a fix for this?

try this - not sure if it will work for you but it's worth a try.
open disk utility - verify your disk permissions - repair if errors are found then restart your macbook once the repairs are done.
see if that changes the way your macbook responds to changing your screen saver.

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There are several posts in this same vein, here, but I can't seem to find a specific one.
I had a process that ran and accidently began removing portions of my "user" directory. I used time machine to restore and everything seems fine now.
However, I noticed that after awhile, the screen saver would come up rather than just blanking the screen. I decided this would be ok, so I when to System Preferences-> Desktop and Screen Saver then clicked the Screen Saver tab. I chose one of the screen savers, but didn't like it. But upon re-entering the System Preferences a second time, low and behold, there were NO screen savers listed and the process hung and wouldn't close. I finally had to stop the process from the Activity Monitor, at which point it gave a dump. This has happened about 10 times.
When I go to /System/Library/Screen\ Savers/ there is no content there. Same goes for ~/Lirbrary/Screen\ Savers/. So it looks as if they are gone. I have a Mac Book Pro, however, that behaves the same way (except its running Snow Leopard instead of Lion). So I don't know that's it.
I have run permissions repair and checked the disk and all is well.
I have set System Preferences to not run in 32 bit, as someone suggested, but that didn't do anything either.
I have a 2009 iMac with 4GB and about 3/4th full disk.
Could anyone suggest any more alternatives?

Thanks Linc. I am not really comfortable with the re-install approach I guess, but it may be all I have left. I tried to go back to a previous backup on Time Machine and just replace systempreferences.app but the backup wouldn't let me do that. I have restored library in my home directory but I did so only piecemeal based on things that seemingly got disturbed.
One very odd thing... I left my computer on this morning and came back a little later and lo and behold a screen saver was running. This was a bit of a surprise, seeing that when I go to the system preferences and try to see screen savers, they aren't there and that's when the app hangs. So, apparently the screen savers are SOMEWHERE, but not able to be seen. That's what is killing me. I feel as if its a permission problem, yet when I run a repair-permissions, it finds nothing wrong. The screen saver files are supposed to be somewhere, but I have a feeling they are hidden somehow, and because of that, I can't change anything. The result baffling part is that even in terminal mode, viewing /System/Library/Screen\ Savers/ or the home library folder, shows absolutely nothing in Finder OR terminal mode. So they are either completely gone or hiding. I have to assume the latter, seeing that a screen saver started up.
So if anyone has an idea how these files could be hiding, or where, other than the locations above, that would be a very good thing to know.

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I own a late-2006 Intel-based iMac. Over the last few months, I've noticed that the iMac freezes when the screen saver is running. This doesn't happen all the time, and it doesn't matter what screen saver I use. (None of the screen savers is a third-party.) The iMac doesn't freeze at any other time.
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Your iMac has a dedicated Graphic's chip (GPU), while some of the Late 2006 17" iMacs had a GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM that shared with the main memory. To check which Graphic's chip you have go to: Apple > About This Mac > More Info and in the Hardware section select Graphics/Display.
If you would like to monitor the temperature of your GPU, CPU, HD and Memory check out the iStat Pro widget > http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
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IMac freezes when changing the screen saver

Hi all:
I originally posted this in the "Using Mac OS X" forum (iMac freezes when changing the screen saver, but thought I'd post here as well since the issue arises on a freshly installed OS.
We've got three 350MHz slot-loading G3 iMacs (with 512MB RAM) which we're planning to use for basic word processing. The install of Panther (10.3.5 from black retail cds with 10-seat volume license) went fine on the first two. Ran the updates to 10.3.9, installed MS Office 2004, everything working great (they're a little slow, but after all, they are only 350 MHz).
On the third, the first problem we noticed was the computer would lock up whenever we changed the screen saver from the default (Flurry; Computer Name also works). It continues to do so even after: repair permissions; repair disk; Disk Warrior; reset pram; reset nvram; reset pmu; change RAM; change hard drive; erase hard drive; write zeros to hard drive; reinstall with different set of retail CDs; trash preferences, and delete cache files. (If there's anything I've left out, it's in the other thread).
Now we've noticed that we can't create any new user accounts. We've thought about putting this one in production, just warning the user that they can't change the screen saver, but god only knows what will turn up next.
I'm starting to think it's a logic board issue, but could it be that selective? And would you see the same problem with another hard drive and different install discs? Am I missing something?
BTW, there's a crash log with the other thread.
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I'm going to mark this one as answered.
I removed the hard drive from the iMac, and put it into another 350 MHz iMac, and everything works great. I can select any screen saver without having it freeze, create new accounts, whatever my little heart desires.
In checking the history of the problem iMac, there was an assortment of problems with booting (both from the hard drive and from the CD-ROM drive) which were never satisfactorily resolved. The problems just seemed to go away after sitting unplugged for a few days, as much as for anything we actually did to it.
Now we just have to decide whether it's worth fixing, or using it somewhere in a non-critical role with OS 9 installed.
Cheers,
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** Note: A very important file is the "com.apple.Mail.plist" preference file located in the Preferences folder which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences (hold this one and replace if your problem is not with Mail).
You'll have to go through some of your System Preferences and apps to set the preferences back to how you like them. (Or if you have the time and inclination, "cherry pick" through until you find the problem one or two.)
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Macbook Air freezes when changing screensaver

I am having issues when I try to change my screensaver. Whenever I click on a different screensaver option, my Macbook Air freezes, and I have to force close System Preferences. I have no problems with changing my desktop wallpaper. I have restarted my laptop but it still freezes.
I saw another board with a similiar problem except instead of the screensaver window freezing, their desktop window would freeze.
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Hi,
I have a Satellite M40 and a big problem.
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I plugged an external monitor to the laptop and it works,
the laptop screen is full of lines and the 2nd monitor shows what the laptop screen should normally also show
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in linux:
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http://www.ronnylindner.de/extern/images/toshiba/screen1.jpg
http://www.ronnylindner.de/extern/images/toshiba/screen2.jpg
http://www.ronnylindner.de/extern/images/toshiba/screen3.jpg
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Bye and thanks in advance, Ronny
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I will try it with the Toshiba graphics driver, at the moment I use the newest Omega driver
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programs giving this error:
world of warcraft (1024x768) -> working with 1280x800
age of empires 2 (800x600)
as I said before, I get this problem also using Suse Linux when I switch from KDE to tty
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strange, using the Toshiba display driver I got the problem at the first try (aoe2), but now it is not reproducable :-(
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Os x 10.8.3 freezes when changing screen saver

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