in reply to Activate a perl script with a screen saver?

The problem with a screen saver is that you have to somehow suspend its operation when someone moves the mouse. If you have some way to remotely suspend and continue these scripts, why not just run them (and suspend them) from the scheduler that's already built into NT?

If you have the memory, you could also start up the processes using the IDLE priority class and just leave them going. Users wouldn't notice any interference, other than the memory would be reduced.

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