DisplayFusion RSS: Ability to Stop the DisplayFusion Screensaver via CmdLine/hotkey/NirCmd/etc. without user interaction https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016 DisplayFusion RSS: Ability to Stop the DisplayFusion Screensaver via CmdLine/hotkey/NirCmd/etc. without user interaction Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:13:40 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016 RE: Ability to Stop the DisplayFusion Screensaver via CmdLine/hotkey/NirCmd/etc. without user interaction https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016#4 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:30:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016#4 DisplayFusion Maybe whatever you're using doesn't have enough "presense" to work while the screensaver is active. A batch file that starts the screensaver, waits 4 seconds then runs taskkill works fine. A DF Custom Function as I wrote above run by DisplayFusion and triggered by mobile works as well. Of course if your screensaver is not actually managed by DisplayFusion, then the taskkill parameter will be wrong. ]]> RE: Ability to Stop the DisplayFusion Screensaver via CmdLine/hotkey/NirCmd/etc. without user interaction https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016#3 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:15:01 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016#3 DisplayFusion It doesn't work.

While the screensaver is running, the PC doesn't respond to automated command line calls via bat/exe/etc. It just responds to physical mouse/keyboard controls.

This sounds like a bug to me. if it responds to physical mouse and keyboard commands, why wouldn't it respond to the same commands but simulated by an automated process via bat/exe/cmd line? ]]> RE: Ability to Stop the DisplayFusion Screensaver via CmdLine/hotkey/NirCmd/etc. without user interaction https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016#2 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:18:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016#2 DisplayFusion 
taskkill /im DFSSaver.scr
works for me. ]]> Ability to Stop the DisplayFusion Screensaver via CmdLine/hotkey/NirCmd/etc. without user interaction https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016 Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:09:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/ability-to-stop-the-displayfusion-screensaver-via-cmdlinehotkeynircmdetc-without-user-interaction/?ID=01983955-9bc8-76e6-94c3-3fd815205016 DisplayFusion Hi,

I'm trying to automate starting and stopping the DisplayFusion Screensaver without physical user interaction (human pressing a keyboard key or moving the mouse).

I'm successfully able to start the DisplayFusion Screensaver and then I cannot stop it using a hotkey to call a function (keypress or mouse movement) in DisplayFusion. Also, I tried using other methods like NirCmd and AutoHotKey but I was not successful.

Please let me know what it the bext way to stop the screensaver. I can control anything in the PC, even killing the particular process running the DisplayFusion Screensaver.

Thanks in advance. ]]>