control panel
Power Options
tab Power Schemes
'Always On' or
'home/office desk' and
set 'turn off monitor'  up to 'never'
set 'turn off hard drives' up to 'never
or tab 'Standby'and disable or
set 'monitor' & 'hard drives' up to 'never'.

Adonna

>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.


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