How to count idle time

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Is there a nice way to determine how long a keyboard/mouse has been idle? I
was thinking the time could be recorded whenever a keydown or mousemove event
fired and then have a timer fire periodically and compare Now to the recorded
time. This though seems very cheesy and possibly inefficient.

any thoughts?

Thanks,
Mark

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: How to count idle time

"Mark" <Mark@discussio ns.microsoft.co mschrieb:

Is there a nice way to determine how long a keyboard/mouse has been idle?
I
was thinking the time could be recorded whenever a keydown or mousemove
event
fired and then have a timer fire periodically and compare Now to the
recorded
time.

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