Turning on Presentation Mode in Windows?

Question

Windows Vista has "Presentation Mode", which you can turn on with the Mobility Center.

How can I turn it on programmatically?

Answer 1

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

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

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

This is quite old, but I found this wasn't working from a third party program, because cmd wasn't inheriting the environment, therefore these weren't working like they would from the Run Box:

• PresentationSettings
• PresentationSettings /start
• PresentationSettings /stop

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

• Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c PresentationSettings" # to spawn a GUI
• Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c PresentationSettings /start" -NoNewWindow # execute with no gui, but the icon appears in the tray
• Start-Process cmd -ArgumentList "/c PresentationSettings /stop" -NoNewWindow # execute with no gui, but the icon disappears from the tray after it has been started.