Aborting System Sleep?

[evarmint]

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 shutdown that is in progress?

 

[JurkMonkey]

if you can capture the shutdown event through the windows API then you can simply launch the cmd process and pass it shutdown -a

This will abort the shutdown

 

[evarmint]

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 question remains: Is there a way for a windows application to prevent the system from going to sleep?

 

[JurkMonkey]

If you don't want the screen saver to pop up then consider moving the cursor 1 pixel every n minutes

You may be able to use the Windows API to set the Power Option for the computer to turn sleep to "never"

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

[evarmint]

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.

 

[JurkMonkey]

Google KeyHooks C# and try to detect the keypress - once you get that message you can cancel it I believe.

http://www.ubuntu.com/