I'm looking for a way to disable the screen saver from starting (or greatly increase the idle time) while running a VB6 program on a WinXP machine. Microsoft suggested using the SystemParametersInfo call, but that either doesn't work under XP, or I'm doing it wrong. In either case, it doesn't work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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Disabling screen saver from VB6 on XP machine
- Thread starter fiveoaks
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Screensaver settings are saved in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
To disable screensaver it is enough (not sure though) to delete the SCRNSAVE.EXE's value. Do not remove "scrnsave.exe" just its value.
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LendPoint Software
To disable screensaver it is enough (not sure though) to delete the SCRNSAVE.EXE's value. Do not remove "scrnsave.exe" just its value.
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LendPoint Software
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