Yay! Success!
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Sometimes I really hate Windows. Two triggers for this are updates change the power management settings to default, so the screensaver doesn't work any more, and the Caps Lock key loses its toggled state at every reboot or sleep cycle. I had the second one solved a few years ago, with a scheduled task at bootup to run a simple custom NumLockChanger program. About 9 months ago or so it stopped working. Played with it a bit, and for some reason could never get it to work, although it had previously responded to the 31/131 task just fine. Cussed a lot, and never got to the bottom of it. Changed the event being responded to to 'unlocking of workstation' yesterday. Now it works fine, although I don't have the NumLock key activated during password entry. Good enough! Microsoft - don't change this any more!!! And fix the power management bug! 1 out of 2 - success!
The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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Sometimes I really hate Windows. Two triggers for this are updates change the power management settings to default, so the screensaver doesn't work any more, and the Caps Lock key loses its toggled state at every reboot or sleep cycle. I had the second one solved a few years ago, with a scheduled task at bootup to run a simple custom NumLockChanger program. About 9 months ago or so it stopped working. Played with it a bit, and for some reason could never get it to work, although it had previously responded to the 31/131 task just fine. Cussed a lot, and never got to the bottom of it. Changed the event being responded to to 'unlocking of workstation' yesterday. Now it works fine, although I don't have the NumLock key activated during password entry. Good enough! Microsoft - don't change this any more!!! And fix the power management bug! 1 out of 2 - success!
The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
David O'Neil wrote:
the screensaver doesn't work any more
If only I was that lucky. I'm on a domain that has a policy that forces the lock screen to show up after 5 minutes of inactivity. (I'm assuming that "screensaver" in this case is interchangeable--who needs a screensaver in this day and age?) I would *love* to have that disabled, especially since the machine is a remote VM that can only be access over VPN. Having its screen locking automatically provides absolutely zero benefit to anyone.
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Sometimes I really hate Windows. Two triggers for this are updates change the power management settings to default, so the screensaver doesn't work any more, and the Caps Lock key loses its toggled state at every reboot or sleep cycle. I had the second one solved a few years ago, with a scheduled task at bootup to run a simple custom NumLockChanger program. About 9 months ago or so it stopped working. Played with it a bit, and for some reason could never get it to work, although it had previously responded to the 31/131 task just fine. Cussed a lot, and never got to the bottom of it. Changed the event being responded to to 'unlocking of workstation' yesterday. Now it works fine, although I don't have the NumLock key activated during password entry. Good enough! Microsoft - don't change this any more!!! And fix the power management bug! 1 out of 2 - success!
The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
David O'Neil wrote:
updates
When you bought into window ten you opened yourself up to the following type of admonishment: "It ain't yer computer no more - so jes' shut up and and give us a bit toothy grin."
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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David O'Neil wrote:
the screensaver doesn't work any more
If only I was that lucky. I'm on a domain that has a policy that forces the lock screen to show up after 5 minutes of inactivity. (I'm assuming that "screensaver" in this case is interchangeable--who needs a screensaver in this day and age?) I would *love* to have that disabled, especially since the machine is a remote VM that can only be access over VPN. Having its screen locking automatically provides absolutely zero benefit to anyone.
I have a program that runs in the background and hits a key every few seconds - this defeats the inactivity time-out. There are a few of these around on the interweb - or I can send you the source code and you can build it yourself.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sometimes I really hate Windows. Two triggers for this are updates change the power management settings to default, so the screensaver doesn't work any more, and the Caps Lock key loses its toggled state at every reboot or sleep cycle. I had the second one solved a few years ago, with a scheduled task at bootup to run a simple custom NumLockChanger program. About 9 months ago or so it stopped working. Played with it a bit, and for some reason could never get it to work, although it had previously responded to the 31/131 task just fine. Cussed a lot, and never got to the bottom of it. Changed the event being responded to to 'unlocking of workstation' yesterday. Now it works fine, although I don't have the NumLock key activated during password entry. Good enough! Microsoft - don't change this any more!!! And fix the power management bug! 1 out of 2 - success!
The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
We have three printers on our home network. After every update I used to find that my default printer was changed to my wife's paintjet, for which I don't even have a driver installed. However, lately I just find that after an update I don't have a default printer anymore. Yuck!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I have a program that runs in the background and hits a key every few seconds - this defeats the inactivity time-out. There are a few of these around on the interweb - or I can send you the source code and you can build it yourself.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Is it native code?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Is it native code?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Doesn't that depend on whether or not you and Forogar are in the same country?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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David O'Neil wrote:
the screensaver doesn't work any more
If only I was that lucky. I'm on a domain that has a policy that forces the lock screen to show up after 5 minutes of inactivity. (I'm assuming that "screensaver" in this case is interchangeable--who needs a screensaver in this day and age?) I would *love* to have that disabled, especially since the machine is a remote VM that can only be access over VPN. Having its screen locking automatically provides absolutely zero benefit to anyone.
We have same situation. Complete VM desktops which lock every 5 minutes and are accessed only from VPN. So annoying. Someone here showed me a trick. Open PowerPoint. Create blank presentation with one slide is fine. Start a powerpoint presentation. Alt-Tab away from powerpoint and it will be running presentation in background. The machine will not lock any more. I have it running on my VM desktop and it worked for my wife's computer at an entirely different company. It'll make you so happy not having to unlock computer every 5 minutes. :thumbsup::cool:
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We have same situation. Complete VM desktops which lock every 5 minutes and are accessed only from VPN. So annoying. Someone here showed me a trick. Open PowerPoint. Create blank presentation with one slide is fine. Start a powerpoint presentation. Alt-Tab away from powerpoint and it will be running presentation in background. The machine will not lock any more. I have it running on my VM desktop and it worked for my wife's computer at an entirely different company. It'll make you so happy not having to unlock computer every 5 minutes. :thumbsup::cool:
It kind of makes me sad, because it means PowerPoint is actually good for something.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
We have three printers on our home network. After every update I used to find that my default printer was changed to my wife's paintjet, for which I don't even have a driver installed. However, lately I just find that after an update I don't have a default printer anymore. Yuck!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
It's because the driver for your linotype machine has been deprecated, so they keep deleting it.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
We have three printers on our home network. After every update I used to find that my default printer was changed to my wife's paintjet, for which I don't even have a driver installed. However, lately I just find that after an update I don't have a default printer anymore. Yuck!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I have a program that runs in the background and hits a key every few seconds - this defeats the inactivity time-out. There are a few of these around on the interweb - or I can send you the source code and you can build it yourself.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Is it native code?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
