Come posso cambiare a livello di screensaver a livello di programmazione?

Question

Vorrei cambiare lo screensaver corrente per uno personalizzato (che in precedenza ho caricato come risorsa in Visual Studio) usando C#. Come si potrebbe fare? L'ho cercato su Google e così, ma tutto parla di "come creare uno screensaver", non "come cambiare un salvaschermo". Se possibile, dovrebbe funzionare su WinXP, Vista e 7.

Answer 1

I'll answer my question with the piece of code that worked to me:

public sealed class Screensaver
{
    Screensaver() { }

    const int SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE = 0x0011;

    [DllImport("user32", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
    unsafe public static extern short SystemParametersInfo (int uiAction, int uiParam, int* pvParam, int fWinIni);

    public static void Set(string path)
    {
        try
        {
            RegistryKey oKey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Control Panel",
            true);
            oKey = oKey.OpenSubKey("desktop", true);
            oKey.SetValue("SCRNSAVE.EXE", path);
            oKey.SetValue("ScreenSaveActive", "1");

            unsafe
            {
                int nX = 1;
                SystemParametersInfo(
                SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE,
                0,
                &nX,
                0
                );
            }
        }
        catch (Exception exc)
        {
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(exc.ToString());
        }
    }
}

Then, when calling it from my application:

static string ResourcePath(string resource)
{
    return Application.StartupPath + "\\Resources\\" + resource;
}

Program.Screensaver.Set(Program.ResourcePath("svr1.scr"));

I read somewhere I should write a name no longer than 8 characters (a bit weird, but XP is all like this), so my screensaver is called svr1.scr (not really object oriented, but does the trick)

Answer 2

This is the command that windows executes when installing a new one

rundll32.exe desk.cpl,InstallScreenSaver %l