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Ochbad (2 posts) Bio

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Fri 25 Feb 2005 05:05 AM (UTC)

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Is it possible somehow (with VBscript) to determine the idle time of the computer?

I would like to make a script that does something when the computer is idle, and something else when the user comes back.

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Posted by Ked Russia (524 posts) Bio

Date Reply #1 on Sat 26 Feb 2005 08:51 AM (UTC)

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You can use WMI for that. I am not exactly sure that the values of the following property can be interpreted as indicator of "idleness" - it just shows the average amount of time the processor spent outside the idle thread lately:


set proc = GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf ("Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor")
  for each p in proc
    WScript.Echo p.PercentProcessorTime
  next

I am also unsure of what the individual members of that collection are: I have 2 logical processors and the collection for my system consists of 3 elements, so one of those elements either represents an average on two processors or the value for the physical processor, or something else. Perhaps, a simple average of all elements will do:


function IsIdle()
  dim total, count, procs, average
  set procs = GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf("Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor")
  total = 0
  count = 0
  for each proc in procs
    total = total + proc.PercentProcessorTime
    count = count + 1
  next
  average = total/count
  if average < 5 then
    IsIdle = vbTrue
  else
    IsIdle = vbFalse
  end if
end function

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Posted by

Poromenos Greece (1,037 posts) Bio

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Reply #2 on Sat 26 Feb 2005 01:17 PM (UTC)

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I think it would be easier for you to get the cursor position every 3 minutes or so and see if it has changed. If it has, the user probably is at the PC...

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Posted by

Ochbad (2 posts) Bio

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Reply #3 on Sat 26 Feb 2005 11:37 PM (UTC)

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I was so busy looking for a prepackaged solution I didn't even think of that simple cursor method. Should work!

Thanks!

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