I'm not convinced it's the best way to achieve your goal (I think Corion's is more useful), but there is a way to ask the Windows API if the screen saver is running: using the SystemParametersInfo API call, with the proper function selected using the constant SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE. I seem to recall that some of these functions (in particular, SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE) doesn't work, or work that well on XP. So I'm not sure that this function will still work.

In reply to Re: Detect if Windows screensaver is running or screen is locked (Lock Computer) by bart
in thread Detect if Windows screensaver is running or screen is locked (Lock Computer) by nicc777

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