Screen Saver Closes Programs

Just downloaded and installed OS X Yosemite vs 10.10. I have a 27 inch, 3.4 GHz Intel i5 iMac, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR, with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB. Since downloading Yosemite, every time the screen saver kicks in, it closes all the programs that are open. This has become really annoying when I am doing Home Sharing with iTunes, or I have web pages up, and have to step away. I can seem to locate any settings that would allow me to keep the programs up and running, even after the screen saver kicks in.

My MBP was doing exactly that periodically shutting down and restarting. I took it to the Apple Store and they explained to me that the logic board was bad. Since it was still in warranty they replaced the logic board free of charge.
Allan

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