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customizing windows - turning off screensaver and set winxp to run with effects off

Asked by thor918 in Python Scripting Language, Programming Languages, Scripting Languages

I have been tring out some api to turn off effects and screensaver.
but none of theme work. I have sucessfully used similar api to change wallpaper and set screensaver timout.

here is one code:
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/winDesktop.py.html
"    ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(win32con.SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE,
                                               state,
                                               None,
                                               0)"
this api does nothing on my system when set to disabled.

win32con.SPI_SETUIEFFECTS is an api to turn off effects in winxp. (the effects you can customize manually on mycomputer->properties->advanced->performance settings-> adjust for best performance)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947.aspx

this api does nothing on my system either. anyone know any code changes that is required to make this work?

EDIT:
Having a api in python to change theme, would be another way to solve the SPI_SETUIEFFECTS. if the theme is set to classic windows sets all uieffects off. I know another way would to turn the theme service off. however I wan't a solution where some users can have a theme and others can have classic (or every uieffect off)
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#!/usr/bin/env python
import win32security
import ctypes
import os
import sys
import win32api
import win32con
import win32gui_struct
import win32con
 
try:
    import winxpgui as win32gui
except ImportError:
    import win32gui
 
#turn off effects in winxp       
#win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_SETUIEFFECTS,1,win32con.SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE)
#print win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_GETUIEFFECTS)
 
#Read of current wallpaper
#print win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER)
#Remove wallpaper
#win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER,"",win32con.SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE)
 
#Screensaver
# toggle the current state of the screensaver and return the new state
#def toggleSS():
#	enabled = win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE)
#	win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE,not enabled,win32con.SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE)
#	return win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE)
#toggleSS()
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