A while back I created a small AutoIt script, to prevent the screensaver from kicking in, last employer had screensaver kick after 5 min, which was rather annoying when you are out doing presentations, and you have to punch in your password everytime the screensaver kicks in..
Then I read a post from Dimitry Sotnikov that he had written a small PowerShell script to do something similar, and figured out that he uses Wshell to send a keystroke, I thought that could be annoying, if you start working on the computer, and forget to stop the execution of the script, and it suddenly types a character.
So I decided to figure out how to move the mouse from PowerShell, l assumed that I would have to do it using a .Net class, after looking around MSDN I found
[System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]
So combining that with Dimitry’s script we get:
[ps]
param($minutes = 60)
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $minutes; $i++) {
Start-Sleep -Seconds 60
$Pos = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position
[System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position = New-Object System.Drawing.Point((($Pos.X) + 1) , $Pos.Y)
}
[/ps]