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Re: idle computer

• Posted by tone.skoda at gmx.net Jan 24, 2003
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interesting idea, maybe ill do that
but i have screensave disabled, will have to enable it now

----- Original Message -----
From: <Patrick.Barnes at transgrid.com.au>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: idle computer


>
> 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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