Re: Stop a running Screensaver .

Steve,

Fantastic !....It works beautifully !......It never occured to me to use the
WMI for solving this . I had been only exploring APIs so far.

Thank you very much indeed. :)

I am still curious to see a pure API solution only for the sake of learning :)

Regards.


"Steve Yandl" wrote:

Try this.

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strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process")

For Each objProcess in colProcesses
If Right(objProcess.Name, 4) = ".scr" Then
objProcess.Terminate
End If
Next

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Steve




"RAFAAJ2000" <RAFAAJ2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am trying to turnoff a screensaver as soon as it kicks off.

I know how to detect if a screen saver is currently running via
SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING but I can't seem to STOP it once it has kicked
off
programmatically.

I have tried simulating a Mouse Move or SendKey and even using the
SendMessage with the WM_CLOSE Msg but no luck !

Actually, I ma not sure about this, but it looks as if no code is executed
once the screensaver kicks off as the lines of code subsequent to the
screensaver starting don't execute !

I am doing this in an XL macro under XL2002 WIN XP.

Any help on this ?

Regards.



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