How to disable screensaver and screen inactivity power-down timers

Question

In my several year old slide-show program, to avoid interruptions I have the following VB code:

'Disable screen saver and screen power-down; return True if successful
Try
'Disable display and system timeout timers:
SetThreadExecutionState(EX_STATE.ES_CONTINUOUS Or EX_STATE.ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED Or EX_STATE.ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED)
Return True
...

And there is a matching proc to re-enable them.
I'm wondering if there is nowadays a more graceful way, say in the My. namespace, to accomplish this; and to re-enable the timers when I'm done.
But I haven't found one. Any ideas?
Am presently using Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10.

Answer 1

Thanks! I'll take a look.
Have used My.Settings before, but not for this.

Answer 2

There really is nothing more graceful but you could wrap the current code in a custom My module.

See my Microsoft article VB.NET MySettings deep dive.