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A big thank you to everyone that helped, I have now finished the application and it works great. I decided to call it [Dimmer] as it dims the brightness. To anyone interested, here is the application webpage where it can be downloaded: http://www.mylittlehost.com/index.aspx?Go=Dimmer Thank...

Anyone? I know some of these questions sound a bit silly, but I would appreciate some sort of explanation.

Ok, its all almost working, I decided to go for a TrayIcon as that saves space in the main taskbar area. As for the (vis781) code to get the taskbar height, it didn't work, where should I put that code? I tried everywhere, in the main form, on my startup module, as a class, just couldnt get it...

Thanks for all the answers, I think what I need is just these two lines on formLoad; SetWindowLong(Me.Handle, GWL.ExStyle, WS_EX.Layered Or WS_EX.Transparent) SetLayeredWindowAttributes(Me.Handle, 0, 255 * (MySliderControl.Value / 100), LWA.Alpha) However I can't test it yet as my...

Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem with the following; I want to have a form that will be topmost, so always on top, I have this form with an opacity of 50% and maximised, but I want to be able to access all applications under it, so I can work on this applications. The idea is to have this...

Well I found the answer to my own question, posting it here now, as others might need it. My research, showed that Windows looks at a particular registry key value to determine wether to run the screensaver or not, so, I just look up that key and set it to 0 (zero), when my application exits I...

[RESOLVED] Disable screensaver in VB.NET Hi guys, just stumbled across a little annoying problem, I have developed a little screensaver, that I also run by calling the *.scr file directly when I want to leave my workstation to kind of lock it, however when the screen saver kicks in it's...