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Re: [ECS] killing the screen saver Scott Reston Sat, 08 Jan 2000 09:17:45 -0500

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thanks, ingo - i'll take a look at that C sample to see if i can write something to
deactivate the screen saver. my HA machine is running Win98, but setting a key-
event doesn't appear to work on my machine...

thanks!



scott reston
ih8gates@concentric.net
http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/


On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:42:07 -0800, Ingo Pakleppa wrote:

>I'm not sure if that applies here, but according to the Microsoft Knowledge
>Base, this should only work on 95/98. On NT, the screen saver would reset
>it's timer only in response to mouse events and not to keyboard events
>(interestingly, on 95, it responds only to keyboard but not to mouse
>events). Under NT, neither keyboard nor mouse events kill the screen saver.

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