Computer freezing when screensaver comes on

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After about 10 minutes of not moving the mouse or typing, my screensaver comes on, and the colors are kinda messed up and the computer freezes.
I tried just disabling the screensaver, but whenever I go to the thing that let's me disable the screensaver, the screensaver comes up on a little window to show me what it looks like, and the computer freezes.
Is there any way to disable the screensaver without actually having to see the screensaver?
 
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For Windows XP, use regedit, look for folder

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

and change the data value for

ScreenSaveActive

to zero.

There should be similar entries for later versions of windows.