Re: Simulate mouse movement?

From: Kevin (kevinp_at_remove_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 03:55:04 GMT

Cute! The buzzing toothbrush would drive us all crazy!

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:37:59 -0000, "Bonj" <a@b.com> wrote:

>I had that problem with Citrix at my old office for ages :-)
>If yours is anything like Citrix's implementation of this security
>functionality, then there's no way round it short of having an actual
>physical robot to move the mouse around, because I think it acts on quite a
>low level. We wanted to leave them on overnight logged into Citrix to run
>programs, but there was no way we could. You may be able to get round it
>with some complex C++ low level hardware hooks, but I'd say that was a very
>rocky road unless you knew a method whereby it would succeed.
>You could attach the base of an electric toothbrush to something steady and
>attach the bristles to the top of the mouse. It'd clean it aswell - you'd
>kill two birds with one stone. It sounds silly and you'd look a tit trying
>it, but there's always the chance niggling away that it MIGHT work....
>
>
>"Kevin" <kevinp@remove_cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:27uk30po6j54e1g8036b32bdtujde0r317@4ax.com...
>> There's a computer in our office that's connected to a network other
>> than our own. Within the past three weeks they've changed some
>> security setting on their server that makes it so when no key is
>> pressed or the mouse doesn't move for five minutes, a box comes up and
>> locks us out of the computer until we enter the password again. As
>> long as someone wiggles the mouse once in a while, it doesn't happen.
>>
>> The screensaver is disabled and I've set the screen to never go blank
>> and I've made sure "Prompt for password when computer goes off
>> standby" is unchecked (just in case).
>>
>> I created a small program in VB6 that disables the screensaver with an
>> API call. That didn't work of course. Next I made the program move
>> the mouse by API calls. That didn't work either. I'm not sure what
>> else to try. Dealing with the IT people in charge of that domain is
>> out of the question.
>

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