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Hello everyone!
First post in here, I did a search first and saw there wasn't something like this :)
This little app prevents Windows XP, Vista, 7 from going to sleep and prevents the screensaver from starting. Yes, you could obviously set the Interval of the Timer to anything you like, as this is just an example.
I hope you like it, and if you have any improvements / ideas / suggestions, please let me know :)
Hannes
No comments or suggestions ¿ :cry:
Hi,
I think it's a nice idea...:thumb: (I can't run your code as I have no VB.Net installed :cry:)
But I found an EXE file in your zip. Better remove it and re-upload. Because, EXE files can't be trusted. Sometimes it may contain viruses. (I had tested your EXE and found no viruses at all ;))
You should only include the source codes and resource files. No EXEs !
Good luck...:thumb:
Not only no Exes, no compiled code of any kind, including DLLs, OCX, etc.
Per this CodeBank policy, I have edited the attachment and removed all compiled code.
We welcome and appreciate all entries into our Codebank, but ask that source code only be included with anything attached.
Thank you.
Hi Hannes,Quote:
Originally Posted by HanneSThEGreaT
Maybe you would arouse more interest if you explained a bit what purpose it serves, or how it works, if that is interesting in its own right. Mind you, nobody ever replies to my contributions either:(.
cheers, BB
Oops! I have to apologise for adding the exe as well. So sorry!. Won't happen again! Thanx Hack for fixing the attachment! :thumb:
Thanx for your interest everyone :)
Hello Boops! :wave: Because it was my first ( of many hopefully ) submission, I think I didn't explain well enough what this project does. Here goes :
Basically it disallows the screen saver to start, and stop the computer from going into sleep mode. this means that you can always have your app open and not be worried by them. The whole idea basically came from a post over at CodeGuru where a fellow member had to do this in one of his projects. I just found it very very interesting, and wanted to share this unique project with you guys :)
Can you give me a link to one of your codebank submissions - they surely will be interesting! :thumb:
Hannes
Well I don't want to hurt your feelings but I suspect I'm not part of your target audience for this one. I always have my screensaver set to [none] in the Windows control panel.
My own recent (and second) contribution is about halfway down this page. But please don't reply to it just to please me: the other denizens of this CodeBank will think we're having a mutual bump fest. Besides, I have an enhanced version in the pipeline just in case it slips off the front page.:D
BB
I have a question about this. On machines we sell to the government, they have a group policy that gets pushed out that sets the machines to sleep every 45 minutes, and hibernate an hour after that. we have software running on the machines to collect RFID tag data, and therefore need to keep them awake. If I read your code correctly, this app when run, will prevent the machine from going to sleep and from hibernating, correct?
Thanks!
Yes, that is correct. :)
Thanks for your interest :thumb:
sorry to resurrect an old post - but thanks you solved my problem after two days of trawling msdn