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How can I turn Win7 ScreenSaver to Kill a Task?

I could be going about this all the wrong way, but..

I have some WIndows 7 PCs that we are turning into KIOSK PCs, and I want to have the Screen Saver kill the Access database that will be running.

So, if a user gets up and walks away from the Access database entry for 3 minutes, instead of a screen saver kicking in.. it kills the Access database process running.

Then the next user will just have to double-click on the database icon to re-start it.

I thought of using scheduled tasks, but those have not seemed to work reliably.

Any thoughts?

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Kimputer

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Boyd (HiTechCoach) Trimmell, Microsoft Access MVP 2010-2015

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Steve Kile

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I agreed with Boyd, but the problem I was facing was non-computer people leaving their person data open on a KIOSK pc.. and my boss wanted it killed ASAP. I ended up using a scheduled task to kill the database when the screen saver turned on.

Did.. http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/240227-task-scheduler-trigger-screensaver-event-possible.html