Windows 7 screensaver hot corner

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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Karan Karan This doesn't seem to work on Windows 10, for the record. Unlike the accepted answer, this works fine with Windows 10 and multiple monitors too. Great job! For the record, I noticed that the last avalable build does not include a feature monitor sleep that was merged in Github, any chance you could update that?

Thanks for the app again. There are two outstanding issues, 1 Accidentally activating hotcorners while ingame 2 building merged sleep code there seem to be some issues , Will work on these two and release by Jan 30th. Here's my quickie PowerShell version of this if anybody is interested shameless blog post plug or GitHub this code watches for mouse in certain position currently lower right corner and then triggers Win32 monitor power-off API Enable the keyboard shortcuts option to create your own custom shortcuts which can perform a number of actions such as remap keys, slide window, keep window on top, change input language or open files.

Use the Premeinstaller. Download Preme. The first thing to note about Hot Corners WX is it does not work on operating systems older than Windows 10 and will simply crash. You can either install it and copy the executable or unpack the installer with Universal Extractor to make it portable.

Once opened, Hot Corners WX has four main options available when you move your cursor to a corner of the screen: switch windows, show Start Menu, show the Desktop and show notifications Action Center. Simply click each drop down menu and select the function for the specified corner, the top entry is obviously to leave the action blank. By default, each corner is disabled because its sensitivity is set to zero.

Increasing the number will increase the size of the hot corner. Setting the number to three, for example, will activate the hot corner action if the cursor is within three pixels of the corner of the screen. Download Hot Corners WX. WinXCorners is another program that has been made for Windows 10 only. It is similar to Hot Corners WX in some ways but potentially has a few more powerful options. This is also a portable program that is downloaded in a Zip archive.

Simply extract it to a permanent folder if you plan to start WinXCorners with Windows option is in tray icon menu. There are two different configuration windows available from the tray icon. Left click and you get a small window to configure the actions for each corner and turn the hot corners globally on or off. When it turns red, it means that the Saver Starter has disabled the current screen saver and stopped it from running. If it turns green then it means that it is about to activate the current screen saver.

You can configure the hot spot you want to use to instruct saver starter to activate the current screen saver. Download Saver Starter.