Retrieve and Set the Screen Saver Timeout Value

Category:

System/API

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Intelligent Solutions Inc.

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic 5

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
Option Explicit Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32" _ Alias "SystemParametersInfoA" (ByVal uAction As Long, _ ByVal uParam As Long, ByRef lpvParam As Any, _ ByVal fuWinIni As Long) As Long Private Const SPI_GETSCREENSAVETIMEOUT = 14 Private Const SPI_SETSCREENSAVETIMEOUT = 15 Private Const SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = &H1 Private Const SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE = &H2

Code: