Hi John,

Based on my understanding, you'd like to stop the currently running screen
saver in your WinForms application written in VB.NET. If I'm off base,
please feel free to let me know.

When the screen saver is running, is it terminated when you move the
pointer or press a key? If yes, I think you could simulate a key press in
your application to stop the currently running screen saver.

The following is a sample.

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "User32.dll" Alias "keybd_event" (ByVal bvk As
Byte, ByVal bscan As Byte, ByVal dwflags As Integer, ByVal dwextrainfo As
Integer)

' call this API in your code to simulate a key press
keybd_event(65, 0, 0, 0)

Hope this helps.
If my suggestion doesn't apply to your scenario, please feel free to let me
know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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