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Turn on presentation mode on Windows?

Windows Vista has a “Presentation Mode,” which you can enable in the Mobility Center.

How can I enable it programmatically?

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The only way I found is to call presentationsettings.exe using /start or /stop directly.

I also found this link that describes how to activate the presentation mode on desktop PCs: http://www.dubuque.k12.ia.us/it/mobilitycenter/

Hope this helps.

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This is pretty old, but I found that it doesn’t work from a third-party program, because cmd does not inherit the environment, so they did not work like they did in Run Box:

  • PresentationSettings
  • PresentationSettings /start
  • PresentationSettings /stop

However, using powershell to create a new environment, I was able to programmatically invoke it using the following commands:

  • Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c PresentationSettings" # for a GUI to appear
  • Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c PresentationSettings /start" -NoNewWindow # run without gui, but the icon will appear in the tray
  • Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c PresentationSettings /stop" -NoNewWindow # run without gui, but the icon disappears from the tray after it starts.
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