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Start a screensaver when explorer is not the shell

I'm running my own kiosk application as the shell (replacing HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/winlogon/shell).

The application needs to be able to turn off the monitor and I was using Process.Start('scrnsave.scr') to do this. It works on my dev machine but not when the shell is replaced.

It's clearly because the UseShellExecute is set to true, but when I set it to false I can't get the screensaver to run. Using explorer.exe as the command and scrnsave.scr as the argument just causes an explorer window to open.

Is there a switch I can pass to explorer to get it to run the screensaver or is there another way to achieve the same thing?

Thanks.

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