screensaver

For a particular application, I need the screen saver to be disabled while it's running. The operator COULD manually turn it off, and then back on later, but the easiest thing to do would be to just keep the screen saver at bay while the application is running. How do I do this? I've found code for actually turning off the screen saver with SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, but I don't think that's what I want. Serafeim theoldnewthing has your answer: Use SetThreadExecutionState(ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED) . This is used by video players and PowerPoint. Ohad Schneider [FlagsAttribute] public enum EXECUTION

My Application periodicly shows information on the screen. But if the screenshot is active, the application should wait until the user returns. Is there any way to determine if the screensaver is running? I don't need a clean solution, u just needs to work on windows xp. Similar question, but other technology: How to determine that a screensaver is running? Try using the JNA library to invoke the SystemParametersInfo system call. The following example uses code from the win32 examples provided by JNA: public class JNATest { public static void main(String[] args) { W32API.UINT_PTR uiAction =

Is there a recommended way to prevent the Windows screensaver from starting? The closest thing I've found is this article , but what I would really like to do is just tell Windows that the computer isn't idle rather than fooling with the currently set screensaver values. For testing, I set the screensaver to 1 minute and required a password. I tried capturing SC_SCREENSAVE and returning -1 in VB .Net. As commented, it works when there is no screensaver password but fails if the screensaver password is active. (I tried it in Windows XP). I also put this into a Timer's tick event, every 1000