(Resolved) Emulate a key-press for screen-saver disabling...

[tektrader]

Hi all.

I'm trying to bypass the Sarbanes/Oxley requirement of having a screensaver come up every 15 minutes (for my Operators). They have 4 large screens that must be monitored quite often, and they want to know if a program could be created that would emulate pressing the 'Shift' key every 10 minutes or so... so as to stop the screen saver from ever coming up (and no, I can't just disable the screen saver... it's locked down in the profile on the server).

Would I use a similar code snippet to something like this...

Private Sub InitializeTimer()
' Set to 1 second.
Timer1.Interval = 600000
' Enable timer.
Timer1.Enabled = True
Button1.Text = "Enabled"

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
If Button1.Text = "Stop" Then
Button1.Text = "Start"
Timer1.Enabled = False
Else
Button1.Text = "Stop"
Timer1.Enabled = True
SendKeys.Send(Keys.ShiftKey)
End If
End Sub

If so, I appear to be missing something, as it's not working. :-(

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...

-Michael

[tektrader]

Can anyone help? I know it's probably a newbie question, but I'm stumped. *sigh* Even just a quick "look here, jerk" would do.

[SuperSparks]

To send the shift key you need:

SendKeys.Send("+")

[tektrader]

Originally posted by SuperSparks
To send the shift key you need:

SendKeys.Send("+")

So my code is write, I just need to replace my SendKeys part with yours? If so, that didn't seem to work.

I sincerely appreciate the help though...