dubsdj Posted June 9, 2010 Posted June 9, 2010 Does anybody know of a solution to my problem:All our clients have a policy that will switch on the screensaver and lock the computer after 15 mins, this is for security reasons and is important.BUT... sometimes they might be watching a DVD or doing some kind of multimedia presentation and the sodding screensaver will come on and lock the computer?!!! Why can't it be clever enough to know a DVD is running ....? I tried the standard screensavers that are in Windows but they all seem to be suffering from the same problem.Any ideas ????
cluberti Posted June 9, 2010 Posted June 9, 2010 Probably because only keyboard or mouse input resets the timer by default - if you want an app that can do this, you'll have to upgrade to at least WMP 11 on XP, or Vista, and uncheck the "Allow screen saver during playback" option. If you're using a different app to play video, that app will have to have a way (usually via using SetThreadExecutionState to reset the timer and handling the SC_SCREENSAVE WM_SYSCOMMAND message to stop the screensaver itself) to reset the timer in it's options, or you're out of luck.
dubsdj Posted June 11, 2010 Author Posted June 11, 2010 Probably because only keyboard or mouse input resets the timer by default - if you want an app that can do this, you'll have to upgrade to at least WMP 11 on XP, or Vista, and uncheck the "Allow screen saver during playback" option. If you're using a different app to play video, that app will have to have a way (usually via using SetThreadExecutionState to reset the timer and handling the SC_SCREENSAVE WM_SYSCOMMAND message to stop the screensaver itself) to reset the timer in it's options, or you're out of luck.Cheers for that, good info
dubsdj Posted June 11, 2010 Author Posted June 11, 2010 (edited) Probably because only keyboard or mouse input resets the timer by default - if you want an app that can do this, you'll have to upgrade to at least WMP 11 on XP, or Vista, and uncheck the "Allow screen saver during playback" option. If you're using a different app to play video, that app will have to have a way (usually via using SetThreadExecutionState to reset the timer and handling the SC_SCREENSAVE WM_SYSCOMMAND message to stop the screensaver itself) to reset the timer in it's options, or you're out of luck.Strange but the Screensaver Disable option was already checked...Still the **** screensaver comes on... I have tried disabling it with VLC, Media Player both seem to ignore the disable checkbox option. Edited June 11, 2010 by dubsdj
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