When changing your screensaver it will have a place on there for the econemy
or actually energy,  Change the lenght of time there.

Debbie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony R. Candela" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:03 PM
Subject: Standby Mode and Windows XP


> How can I lengthen the time I can leave my PC on and untouched before it
> goes into 'inactive mode?'
>
> My home PC uses the XP-professional operating system.  If I don't strike a
> key in 'active cursor mode' as we JFW users say, the screen seems to go
> dark (I have limited light perception) and the PC appears to go into a
> resting mode.  I have to hit the space bar, arrow up once, and hit the
> space bar again to get the PC back in 'active mode'.
>
> This is a problem in two instances we screen-reader users often find
ourselves:
>
> * Using the' say-all' (JFW) feature to read a long document from top to
bottom;
>
> * Using the continuous scan feature in, for example, Kurzweil OCR
software,
> to scan a long document (the keyboard and screen are not actively engaged
> during this process). If the PC goes inactive during this process, you
lose
> control of the keyboard and can't stop the scanning process until you do a
> number of keystrokes I won't enumerate here.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tony
>
>
> Anthony R. Candela
> National Program Associate
> American Foundation for the Blind
> National Employment Center
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