Finally Solve Win 8 No Screen Saver Problem

How to once and for all make your screensaver work in Win 8

1.) Open a command prompt with Administrative access. Type the following.
powercfg -requests

This will list all of the devices making requests to your display. You should override any executables that you find here. If the “.exe” has any spaces in the name you will need to quote it like “Name of exe.exe”

3.) In command prompt type:
powercfg -requestsoverride PROCESS NameOfExecutableFromAbove.exe DISPLAY

4.) To review what you have overriden type the following.
powercfg -requestsoverride

This was the only solution that worked well for us and forces Windows to use the screensaver. Microsoft, please fix this. Users shouldn’t have to know how to use the command line to fix such a basic issue.