Tempoary screensaver disabler

[Rellik]

If you want to defrag your drive, but you don't want the sceensaver to come on and yet you don't want to disable the screensaver in display properties, then try this:

Start the program that you don't want the screensaver to come on, and get a heavy enough object to press the SHIFT key down, that should prevent the screensaver from coming on. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

This should work in 95, 98 and probably ME, 2000 & XP as well.
Now just remember to take the object off the keyboard to avoid any unwanted surprises like accidentally opening several desktop shorcuts at once.

[MacGyver]

Interesting tip, however I prefer to disable the screen saver altogether and use the power saving features of my monitor instead. Save your screen and save electricity, too. And no adverse effects on anything running on your computer.

[Rellik]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by MacGyver:
<strong>Interesting tip, however I prefer to disable the screen saver altogether and use the power saving features of my monitor instead. Save your screen and save electricity, too. And no adverse effects on anything running on your computer.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">True, but sometimes you want to see what is on the screen without it blanking out every 5 minutes or however long you set the screensaver/blanking for.

[freddy]

ok , now that do i do with a k/board full of coffee ????

FtF

[Rellik]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by freddy:
<strong>ok , now that do i do with a k/board full of coffee ????

FtF</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That probably won't be necessary because of a feature your keyboard now has called "Sticky Keys"

[Platypus]

A long-standing trick for Win9x is click the Start button. While the start menu is displayed, the screensaver is disabled. Does anyone know if it still works in later Win versions?

It also is a temporary measure in that if an event occurs to cause the Start menu to close, the screensaver resumes operation.

[cc_penguin]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by PIatypus:
<strong>A long-standing trick for Win9x is click the Start button. While the start menu is displayed, the screensaver is disabled. Does anyone know if it still works in later Win versions?

It also is a temporary measure in that if an event occurs to cause the Start menu to close, the screensaver resumes operation.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Just tried it on my work computer (Windows XP Home Edition) and it didnt work, screensave came up...

[Rellik]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by PIatypus:
<strong>A long-standing trick for Win9x is click the Start button. While the start menu is displayed, the screensaver is disabled. Does anyone know if it still works in later Win versions?

It also is a temporary measure in that if an event occurs to cause the Start menu to close, the screensaver resumes operation.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I kinda tried something similar that worked sometimes, and that was to open up any context menu(I guess the start menu counts) and leave it open.