On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > John van der Putte wrote: > >> At work they disabled the possibility to turn off the screensaver. I >> use a small program which "presses" every 59 second the shift-key. No >> extra hardware needed. The program is called caffe1ne. It works very >> well. The only problem is that when I'm making a selection in excel >> (or every other program) the pressing of shift undo my selection. > > Wow... I understand forced security measures, to a point, but forced > screen savers... isn't there a phrase in the constitution of your > country against "cruel and unusual punishment" or so? :) Actually forced screensavers are not that uncommon in the corporate world. I have no issues with it myself even though I know ways to bypass it since I have admin right on my work computers. For a few shared test computers we need to ask the IT department to create an account without the screensavers so that it does not interfere with the test (EMC/EMI, Shock/Vibration Test, etc). For the OP, the following URL may help. http://daniel-lange.com/archives/34-Disabling-a-group-policyd-screensaver-o= n-Windows.html --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .