I bet the screen saver and background images are simply registry values. If
I were trying to do a similar task, I would search Microsoft's web page to
find out what registry setting is used to set these things, and then get a
registry module from www.cpan.org to set the registry key.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:42 AM
> To: Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List
> Subject: How to modify the Screen Saver setting with PERL?
>
>
> I would like to use PERL to change the Screen Saver settings
> on my machine
> (to work around a BIOS bug). Below is an example of how to do it
> manually:
>
> Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
> Display -> Screen Saver -> Settings
> Turn off monitor -> 1 minute (or some other value)
> Apply
> OK
>
> I've use PERL to launch and run IE, so I'm assuming that
> there are ways to
> also use it to execute other WINDOWS98 commands. If so,
> could you give
> me some pointers on how to do it? If not, then let know so
> that I don't
> waste time looking.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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