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
44 Montgomery Street,  Suite 1305
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 392-4845
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