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Re: Activating the screen saver or power down the screen

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From: Vladimir Afanasyev
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:07
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Hi,

"Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:3e89dfd7$2@newsgroups.borland.com...
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>> I'm not sure where NT/2K/XP stores it's configuration value, though.
>
>Which, btw, ShellExecute() won't work on NT/2K/XP for this, anyway, because
>those OSs run the ScreenSaver under a completely separate desktop of its
>own, so there is extra processing involved in executing screensavers.
>

In both case (Win98, 2000) screen saver was run.
Besides these for Win98 it was not in Windows directory so 
probably not registered as Screen Saver.

But may be you right that was executed but not executed as 
screen saver - password dialog was not called.
But it is enoughly clear emulate the work of screen saver.
Do you try those code?
Vladimir.
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