by Jonathan Valentin (5 Submissions)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Sun 18th June 2000
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Deactivate the Screen Saver
API Declarations
Private Const SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = &H1
Private Const SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE = &H2
Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32" _
Alias "SystemParametersInfoA" (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal _
uParam As Long, ByVal lpvParam As Long, ByVal fuWinIni As _
Long) As Long
VBcoders
Public Function ToggleScreenSaverActive(Active As Boolean) _
As Boolean
'To Activate Screen Saver, set active to true
'to deactivate, set active to false
Dim lActiveFlag As Long
Dim retval As Long
lActiveFlag = IIf(Active, 1, 0)
retval = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, _
lActiveFlag, 0, 0)
ToggleScreenSaverActive = retval > 0
End Function
