Re: How to switch monitor to standby by dragging mouse into a screen corner ?

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:37:42 +0000

Kai Tebbe wrote:

>>From the good old ATARI times I know something like a screen saver tool which is mouse dependent.
>This means if I dragged the mouse into one particular corner (or a few pixel away) the screensaver becomes active
>immediately independently from the time out period.
>
>Is there such a tool for Win2000/WinXP as well?

Not that I know of. What you can do though is make a shortcut to the
relevant .scr file (probably in Windows\system32). R-drag it to the
desktop, create shortcut. Now right click that, Properties, and set a
hotkey in the Shortcut. Hitting that combination will invoke the
screensaver, and you can drag the shortcut onto Start - All Programs and
park it out of the way. Note that if you have an AltGr key to the right
of the spacebar, that is equivalent to CTL-ALT, so setting a period as
hotkey allows you to get the saver with AtlGr and .
  

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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