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Here at work, my computer automatically locks after 10 minutes of non-use; then I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and type a password to unlock it again.
This is annoying, particularly when I'm running a long-duration macro and the screen saver comes on right in the middle of it.
The solution is
an electronic ball that I can stick inside my mouse, which, when it detects that it's been still for 2 minutes, shakes.
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Not sure if this will work [phundug], but you might want to try the following: |
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1) Open your cd tray.
2) Place your mouse on the cd tray in such a way as to obstruct it's retraction
3) Wait.
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Hopefully your cd-try will be of the auto-retracting kind and after a pre-determined amount of time, will attempt to close itself. This in turn will jiggle the mouse a bit (if it doesn't cut a strip of paper and lay it behind the ball in the mouse, securing the other end underneath you keyboard) and stop the screensaver activating. |
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It might not work, but worth a try? |
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My cat is terribly disappointed...she was expecting a device that jiggles the long-dead mouse and makes the cat think it is still worth playing with. |
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There are many baked software solutions for your problem. 'Stay Online' apps and the like.
It's also very easy to write your own mouse jiggler in VB using a couple Windows API calls: GetCursorPos() and SetCursorPos().
I do like zen_tom's approach. It has flair. |
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[UVA], software or macros will not work, because the screensaver comes on while a 100% cpu- using program is already running. Can't run anything else at the same time. |
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zen-tom rocks or rather his cd tray does. |
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failing that a hamster and a wheel with the mouse inside... |
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Granted, but can it be adapted to do anything for my cat ? |
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not really but cats are well used to disappointment - they have lived with us for too long. |
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god forbid one should go into the control panel and have a look at... oh nevermind. |
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Either I don't understand this or I don't
believe it. You're saying you can't turn
off your screensaver? |
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This is a corporate screensaver. Employees can't disable it. |
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I. Well then, the solution is to disable
your employer. Do they trust you with
sharp pencils? |
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The solution, then, is never to allow more than nine minutes of non-use elapse. |
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You need to go to the IT department and give them a good whipping. If you can't do your job comfortably, then give them hell. Worked for me, back when I had a job. |
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When I first read this I thought it said "mouse jigger" and I wondered why mice would need a jigger when it is so obvious they drink straight from the bottle. Do you know why mice have such small balls? Not many of them know how to dance. |
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I had a vision of zen_tom's idea backfiring when the mouse falls through the hole in the middle of the cd tray and the tray closes, slicing the mouse's umbilical cord guillotine-like, the lifeless mouse-corpse falling to the floor, with no amount of Ctrl-Alt-Del to revive it.... |
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