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RE: idle computer

• Posted by Patrick.Barnes at transgrid.com.au Jan 24, 2003
• 382 views

Well, there are a lot of windows processes that will only work when the
screensaver is running... the automated tasks like disk cleanup, defrag,
etc...

If you know what the screensaver is called (maybe look in the registry for
that data) you can check to see if that process is running.

That would be much quicker than hooks, I think.

-----Original Message-----
From: tone.skoda at gmx.net [mailto:tone.skoda at gmx.net]
Sent: Friday, 24 January 2003 13:27
To: EUforum
Subject: Re: idle computer



i knew of hooks but i was hoping there would be some easier and faster way
because i read somewhere in msdn that hooks are meant only for debugging.
it mustnt be slow because this app will sit in my taskbar all the time.

----- Original Message -----
From: <jordah at btopenworld.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: idle computer


>
> Btw Tone, i forgot to say. This method can considerably slow ur
applications
> running but it works because it has to filter messages of all processes.
>
> Jordah
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jordah at btopenworld.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:40 AM
> Subject: Re: idle computer
>
>
> > Hi tone,
> >     This is the method i know of but it is not easy. U will have to
use
> > global hooks that track specific messages. The global hooks will not
work
> if
> > used in ur application so u'll have to put them in a dll.
> >
> >     Go and research on global hooks. If u have the sdk there is a
program
> > that is used (spy.exe) that uses a similar method.
> >
> > Jordah
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <tone.skoda at gmx.net>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:22 PM
> > Subject: idle computer
> >
> >
> > > how can i find out that user didnt use computer for last say 10
minutes?
> > > like screensaver. no mouse movement, keyboard presses, and also no
hard
> > > drive usage, if he is watching some video for example.
> > >
> > > i can't think of what words to search on google to get code which
does
> > this.
> > > any hint?
> > >
> > >
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