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Hello all,

When the Screen Saver is on, my macro run slow. Is it
possible to set the Screen Saver to None by Macro? How to
do it?

Thanks a lot!

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Bill,

I don't know of a way to turn off your screen saver through code, but
I have heard that using sendkeys periodically prevents it from
starting up...

HTH,
Bernie


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Hello all,

When the Screen Saver is on, my macro run slow. Is it
possible to set the Screen Saver to None by Macro? How to
do it?

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards

Bill




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Not a VBA solution, but one mwthod using the Windows API.

http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&l...d84b45c&rnum=2

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Paul
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Hello all,

When the Screen Saver is on, my macro run slow. Is it
possible to set the Screen Saver to None by Macro? How to
do it?

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards

Bill


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