sleep mode td88 12/11/2008 7:21:02 PM My sleep mode has spontaneously started invoking every 30 to 60 seconds. Annoying. I've gone to desktop/properties/screen saver and found the time set to 60 seconds, which is not a setting I made or changed. I changed it to 5 min.'s. Will this present any problems? Overheating, etc.? If not good, can you recommend a time? I have a one year old hp xw 4400 with windows xp 32 bit . Thanks

Re: sleep mode "Roy Smith" <nobody[ at ]nowhere.com> 12/11/2008 8:56:16 PM "td88" <td88[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B9F4BAF4-928A-4031-B05D-A079AACA75F6[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > My sleep mode has spontaneously started invoking every 30 to 60 seconds. > Annoying. I've gone to desktop/properties/screen saver and found the time > set > to 60 seconds, which is not a setting I made or changed. > > I changed it to 5 min.'s. Will this present any problems? Overheating, > etc.? > If not good, can you recommend a time? > > I have a one year old hp xw 4400 with windows xp 32 bit . You're talking about the screen saver. Actually if you are using a LCD monitor and not a CRT monitor, you can disable the screen saver entirely. The mail reason it's there is in the earlier days when CRT type monitors were the norm, displaying a constant image on it would eventually burn it into the screen phosphors. Modern LCD monitors don't have that problem, so a screen saver isn't really needed. -- Roy Smith http://roysmith1959.spaces.live.com/ --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 081211-0, 12/11/2008 Tested on: 12/11/2008 2:56:20 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

Re: sleep mode td88 12/11/2008 9:20:04 PM Sorry, Roy, I'm a stone age CRT user. Any problems with my setting in that case? Thank you. "Roy Smith" wrote: [Quoted Text] > > > "td88" <td88[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:B9F4BAF4-928A-4031-B05D-A079AACA75F6[ at ]microsoft.com... > > My sleep mode has spontaneously started invoking every 30 to 60 seconds. > > Annoying. I've gone to desktop/properties/screen saver and found the time > > set > > to 60 seconds, which is not a setting I made or changed. > > > > I changed it to 5 min.'s. Will this present any problems? Overheating, > > etc.? > > If not good, can you recommend a time? > > > > I have a one year old hp xw 4400 with windows xp 32 bit . > > You're talking about the screen saver. Actually if you are using a LCD > monitor and not a CRT monitor, you can disable the screen saver entirely. > The mail reason it's there is in the earlier days when CRT type monitors > were the norm, displaying a constant image on it would eventually burn it > into the screen phosphors. Modern LCD monitors don't have that problem, so > a screen saver isn't really needed. > > -- > > Roy Smith > http://roysmith1959.spaces.live.com/ > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 081211-0, 12/11/2008 > Tested on: 12/11/2008 2:56:20 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > >

Re: sleep mode "Roy Smith" <nobody[ at ]nowhere.com> 12/12/2008 7:58:48 AM "td88" <td88[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9487970C-1601-44F0-8706-FE8E6B423DEE[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Sorry, Roy, I'm a stone age CRT user. Any problems with my setting in that > case? > > Thank you. > > "Roy Smith" wrote: > >> >> >> "td88" <td88[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:B9F4BAF4-928A-4031-B05D-A079AACA75F6[ at ]microsoft.com... >> > My sleep mode has spontaneously started invoking every 30 to 60 >> > seconds. >> > Annoying. I've gone to desktop/properties/screen saver and found the >> > time >> > set >> > to 60 seconds, which is not a setting I made or changed. >> > >> > I changed it to 5 min.'s. Will this present any problems? Overheating, >> > etc.? >> > If not good, can you recommend a time? >> > >> > I have a one year old hp xw 4400 with windows xp 32 bit . >> >> You're talking about the screen saver. Actually if you are using a LCD >> monitor and not a CRT monitor, you can disable the screen saver entirely. >> The mail reason it's there is in the earlier days when CRT type monitors >> were the norm, displaying a constant image on it would eventually burn it >> into the screen phosphors. Modern LCD monitors don't have that problem, >> so >> a screen saver isn't really needed. One of my desktop PC's is still using a CRT monitor, so don't feel bad. As for the time, sure that's fine, you could make it a little longer too, like say 10 minutes or so. -- -- Roy Smith http://roysmith1959.spaces.live.com/ --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 081211-0, 12/11/2008 Tested on: 12/12/2008 1:58:49 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

RE: sleep mode inavlis 12/14/2008 3:22:06 PM Hi td88, I suppose you are talking about screen saver yeah? you could disable it as said earlier, but my take is to turn it the screen off for interval of 3 minutes of idle time? This is especially true if you are planning to have your LCD monitor working for long time (more than 4 years). Though the monitor will not burn out like CRT as before the live pixels may deteriorate. But if you are planning to change your machine in 3-4 years, you can just turn it on always. "td88" wrote: [Quoted Text] > My sleep mode has spontaneously started invoking every 30 to 60 seconds. > Annoying. I've gone to desktop/properties/screen saver and found the time set > to 60 seconds, which is not a setting I made or changed. > > I changed it to 5 min.'s. Will this present any problems? Overheating, etc.? > If not good, can you recommend a time? > > I have a one year old hp xw 4400 with windows xp 32 bit . > > Thanks