How To Know When Your Screen Saver Starts (238882)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
This article was previously published under Q238882 SUMMARY
A screen saver will start, pending your choices, whenever there is no mouse or keyboard activity for the current screen saver timeout period. Some applications need to know when the screen saver has started in order to do some background processing, for example, writing or updating the data to disk.
REFERENCES
For additional information, please click the article number(s) below
to view the article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
140723 How To Force a Screen Saver to Close Once Started in Windows NT
150785 How To Detect If a Screen Saver Is Running on Windows NT
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 12/20/2004 |
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Keywords: | kbHook kbhowto KB238882 |
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