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Aborting System Sleep?
This is a different issue. Modern keyboards have that little moon-icon button which puts the system to sleep when the user presses it. I want to disable that.- evarmint
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- Forum: C# (C sharp): Microsoft
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Aborting System Sleep?
I am still stuck here because the sleep event, if there is one, is not a shutdown event, nor is it a powerbroadcast event. The only thing I have found is an article that says I can write a driver to filter the the keycaps request, but I think that is too heavyweight of a solution. So the...- evarmint
- Post #3
- Forum: C# (C sharp): Microsoft
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Aborting System Sleep?
I would like to disable the system Sleep key that is found on modern keyboards. I tried overriding the WM_SYSKEYDOWN event, but somehow this key still makes it through and puts the system to sleep. Is there another way to disable this key? Alternatively, is there a way I can abort a system...- evarmint
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- Forum: C# (C sharp): Microsoft
