Is there a simple way to prevent the windows95 screen saver from starting
for a period of time in my vb4 application?  Perhaps its possible to send
a key stroke so the screen saver "thinks" a key has been hit?  As I am
new to programing -  any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
Tom Boyd

I once wrote a screensaver, and the hardest bit was finding all the stray
events that could fire that would switch off the screensaver, and for which
the screensaver had to be desensitivised. I managed to make it so that it
only went off once every few hours... (I was doing quite a lot of screen
activity, including the use of SendKeys to scroll some text.)

       Shiva
--
"Information is Knowledge, Knowledge is Power, Power is Dangerous"
"Information Overload... I've a thousand pages on it..."
"Play with fire - burn your fingers"

PUT

  SENDKEYS  "+"  
                                           'IT HITS THE TAB KEY AND STOPS      
                                      THE SCREEN SAVER

IN A TIMER

Another option is to use the API to inform Windows that a screensaver is
running thereby preventing it from firing off the screensaver.

To do this you need to declare the following in the general declarations of
a module
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Public Declare Function SystemParametersInfo& Lib "user32" Alias _
                "SystemParametersInfoA" (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal uParam
As Long, lpvParam _
                As Any, ByVal fuWinIni As Long)

Public Const SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING = 97
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Type in the following code when  you need to prevent the screensaver from
starting up
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    Dim lRet as long
    Dim lpvParam As Boolean

    '-- Turn ON ScreenSaver mode.
    lRet = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING, True, lpvParam, 0)

****************************************************************************
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 Type in the following code to set things back to normal
****************************************************************************
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'-- Turn OFF ScreenSaver mode.
    lRet = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING, False, lpvParam, 0)

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NOTE: This method only works under Windows 95

Hope this helps