By the way, changes to those keys will only be active after the next login.
Maybe someone has a clue how to force the system to reread the user settings
?
_____________________________________________
Bruno Bellenger
Sr. Network/Systems Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: Bellenger, Bruno (Paris)
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 14:01
To: 'Douglas Galbraith'; Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: How to modify the Screen Saver setting with PERL?
Everything you need to change the screen saver's settings can be found in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
But that's only for your interactive session, of course.
Changing other users (including remote) settings is a bit more tricky as the
registry path will include the user's SID, which you must query first.
HKEY_USERS\<USER'S SID>\Control Panel\Desktop
As for the System (Default) settings, the values can be found in
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Values in there relevant to background and screensaver will include :
ScreenSaveTimeOut 2700
ScreenSaveActive 1
SCRNSAVE.EXE C:\WINNT\System32\LOGON.SCR
ScreenSaverIsSecure 1
Pattern (None)
Wallpaper (Default)
TileWallpaper 0
_____________________________________________
Bruno Bellenger
Sr. Network/Systems Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Galbraith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
<mailto:[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 14:42
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,
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