And YES yours does STILL draw the pretty pictures, you have
just elected to not see them. They are still there if you choose to
view them, meaning that the computer still has to generate them.

No, the 'blank screen' option is a SETI-client setting that speeds
things up by about 60% and that can only be done by skipping the
generating of graphics. It is not a Windows 'Display Power Saving'
setting. But the two are easily confused.

((HH))