\nI see this all the time.\n<\/p>\n
\nPeople have a problem and have already decided what technology they’re\ngoing to use to solve it, and then they hit a roadblock:\nThe technology they picked is unsuited to the problem!\n<\/p>\n
\nHow do I put my laptop into standby mode from VBScript?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nHow do I change the user’s mouse acceleration from a batch file?\nI changed the registry values but it doesn’t take effect immediately.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe functionality you seek is implemented in native code via Win32.\nAt the end of the day, the solution involves calling\n
SetSystemPowerState<\/code> or\nSystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETMOUSE)<\/code>,\nsince those are the functions that actually do the work.\n<\/p>\n\nThere’s no law that forbids writing programs in C or C++,\nparticularly since that’s the target language for the native\nbits of Win32.\nGo ahead, write that program, and then call it from your batch file.\n<\/p>\n
\nNow, it’s possible that you can get somebody else to play\nmiddle-man for you.\nFor example, if you wanted to shut down the computer,\nyou can get the
shutdown.exe<\/code> program to help out.\nAnd if you had chosen wisely,\nthe technology you already decided upon may wrap the Win32\nfunctionality inside a helper function or class,\nor it may provide\na way of calling into native Win32 code. For example,\nyour Visual Basic program could just callSetSystemPowerState<\/code>\nvia a platform invoke:\n<\/p>\n\n<DllImport(\"kernel32.dll\")>\nPublic Shared Function SetSystemPowerState(_\n fSuspend As Boolean, _\n fForce As Boolean) As Boolean\nSetSystemPowerState(True, False)\n<\/pre>\n\n(Note: I don’t speak Visual Basic, so I may have gotten the details\nwrong, but I hope you get the idea.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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