Re: WINAPI function for setting screen saver?

"Sergey" <serbolky@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A week or so back I asked about system power. Many thanx to J French for
the code.


Do yourself a favor and dump the screen saver. There is absolutely no reason
to have a screen saver on a modern display. All they are is eye candy. Use
the power settings to turn off the monitor if you're worried about wasting
power. Screen savers usually peg the CPU at 80% or more so they do nothing
but suck power.

fwiw, our apps will not start at all if there are screen saver settings
active. We show a message box stating "No Screen Savers Allowed" and bail
out. We also don't allow Windows Automatic Updates to be active. They can be
set to Notify but don't download, but that's it. Our apps are busy turning
1/2 million dollar lasers on and off, moving 1000 pound chunks of granite
around and things like that. If a screen saver were to kick in and steal our
processor from us, we'd be hosed.... actually, the machine and possibly the
customer would be hosed. Same goes for automatic updates. Especially the
ones that automatically reboot the PC.... can you imagine?

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