I have the same problem here at work. My WinXP SP3 laptop locks itself (as if pressing Win+L) after about 15 minutes of inactivity. The irony is that I need to watch presentations that take more than 15 minutes, or I'm in online meetings where there's no need for mouse/keyboard and it pisses me off that the screen locks.
So I wrote a small Perl script to simulate mouse movement:
PHP Code:
use strict;
use Win32::GUI();
my ($x, $y) = Win32::GUI::GetCursorPos;
while(1) {
print "Shake it baby\n";
Win32::GUI::SetCursorPos($x+1, $y);
sleep 1;
Win32::GUI::SetCursorPos($x, $y);
sleep 10*60;
}
The script works and I see the mouse move, but that doesn't prevent the lock screen from activating. Does anyone know of a free software that would disable this behavior?
UPDATE: I found that if I have WinSCP 4.2.7 attempt to connect to an unreachable host, the screen never locks. I posted on their forum to find out why this happens and I asked the author to extract that functionality into a small utility to prevent screen saver activation.
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