Screen saver non functional

Suddenly my screensaver won't work. Is there a way to reinstall the screensaver system preference? Suddenly the hot corners don't work and the screensaver never comes on despite being set to come on at 3 minutes (I tried other times as well. None of them worked.
Thanks,
Peter Booth

Hi again Peter,
Was hoping that might work. How large and how many files are set to play in the slideshow? I wonder if that might not be a problem.
Perhaps trying to set a different screen saver and assign the hot corners that you want and test to see if it is just not the slide show screen saver.
You might also try selecting different slide files for the screensaver Slide Show and see if it makes any difference.
You can also try creating a "Test" user account in the Accounts pane of System Preferences and see if the problem persists in that account.
If I can think of something else to try I'll post back,
littleshoulders [:-)
PS. I believe the .plist files that were not recreated in the By Host/Preferences might be due to the fact that you have to rerun one of those to have its preference recreated.....ie. Cosmos, Forest or Beach etc.

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