Stopping the screensaver?

[sjorrel]

Is there an easy way of preventing the screensaver becoming active after a period of inacitivity within Autoit?

[Nuffilein805]

just disable it

you can do

for $x = 1 to 100 step 1
for $y = 1 to 100 step 1
sleep (59000)
mousemove($x,$y)

if you want to solve this problem using autoit

[LxP]

You could try disabling it via the registry when your script starts (not guaranteed but worth a try):

; Remember current screen saver setting
Local $ScrnSaver = RegRead('HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop', 'SCRNSAVE.EXE')

; Disable if one is set
RegDelete('HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop', 'SCRNSAVE.EXE')

When your script finishes:

; Reset screen saver
If $ScrnSaver Then RegWrite('HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop', 'SCRNSAVE.EXE', 'REG_SZ', $ScrnSaver)

[Nuffilein805]

@lxp: this only works when you have admin-rights, i suggest by the way he asks that he hasn't got them nothing personal just a guess

[sjorrel]

@lxp: this only works when you have admin-rights, i suggest by the way he asks that he hasn't got them nothing personal just a guess

I've created a script to automatically install about 7 pieces of software without user intervention, but the screen saver - when set on an XP machine to "go back to login screen" is sometimes causing problems.

[LxP]

No, admin rights aren't required to write to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.