I want my screensaver appears in the screensaver preview box?
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When you make a screen saver you need to support a command line argument (/p [HWND]) that will tell you in which windows to show your screen saver. The command line will be pass to you thru the screen saver control panel. here is a link to the full spec.
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Missing from the page you link to (unless I overlooked) is that you should rename the executable to the ".scr" file extension and store it under the "%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32" folder – Stijn Sanders May 25 '09 at 14:19
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Yes, that's how windows find screen savers. – Shay Erlichmen May 25 '09 at 14:58
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You can start the screen saver, get it's window handle then change it's parent to your forms handle or panel's handle or wherever you want it.
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