[predatorsown]

I recently finished a project but was then asked to make it into a service. I hit a problem in that I need to put the monitor into standby mode as part of this and odviously can't use the usual as there is no window to send a message to.

SendMessage( hWnd, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, (LPARAM)2 );

Is there a more direct way of getting the same functionallity that would work in a service and if so how? Thanks for any help given.

Joe.

[SaswatPadhi]

If you don't have a window to SendMessage to, you can send the message to all top-level windows :

SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, (LPARAM)2 );

or, you can also use GetDesktopWindow to send message to the desktop window.

Hope that would be helpful

[predatorsown]

I've already tried the first and it doesn't compile because not only does a service have to run without its own window but also has to run without a windows messaging loop.

I'll give the later a try tomorrow and will let you know if it works.

Joe.

[predatorsown]

Many thanks SaswatPadhi. Tried the GetDesktopWindow function and that did the job.

Thanks again

Joe.

[SaswatPadhi]

My pleasure