Re: Activating the screen saver or power down the screen

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From: Vladimir Afanasyev
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:12

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Hi Jacob,

"Jacob Mortensen" <jacob.mortensen@mail.dk> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Is there some way to activate the screen saver or to activate the Energy
>Saving function; Power off monitor.
>

You can activate Screen Saver via ShellExecute Win32 API 
function:

ShellExecute(GetDesktopWindow(),
"open","\"C:\\WINNT\\SysInternals Bluescreen.scr\""," /S",
    "C:\\",SW_SHOW);

This way should work (in my opinion) for Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP.

Vladimir.

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