>George,
>Turning off the screen saver would seem the correct and faster choice. If you could give that API call it would probaably solve all the remaining issues for me.
>
>Thanks
The following will turn the screen saver off and back on.

#DEFINE SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE    17
DECLARE SHORT SystemParametersInfo IN Win32API;
  INTEGER uiAction, SHORT uiParam,;
  INTEGER pvParam, INTEGER fWinIni
* Turn screen saver off
lniparm = 0
* lnresult will not be equal to zero if the function succeeds
lnresult = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, lniparm, 0, 0)
*
* Your routine here
*
* Turn screen save back on
lniparm = 1
lnresult = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, lniparm, 0, 0)

This assumes that the screen saver has not been already turned off. There is a way to test this condition which requires a slightly different version of this declaration and parameter list.

hth,