On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:51:50 -0600, Ken Springer
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>On 9/9/11 5:53 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
>> If I walk away from my PC XP for 15 minutes, it will log me off. How do
>> I change that? I looked in Computer Mgmt and UA on the Ctrl Pnl.
>
>I don't know if this will work for you, but I found this:
>
>"Right click the Desktop/Properties/Screen Saver tab, look at the options
>for your Screen saver and also Uncheck the "On resume, password protect"
>option.
>
>"Also in the Monitor Power settings using the Power button. Look on the
>Advanced tab, and the Options section, uncheck the "Prompt for password when
>computer resumes from standby" option."
>
>Disable automatic logoff feature
When I had dial-up, I think it was, I would get logged off, or hung up
on, so I used Agent to send stay-alive messages every n minutes.
OP, you might find a copy of Free Agent and run that. I don't know
what the default setting for that is.
Or you could buy a copy of Agent 6, since you use newsgroups. You
might like it.
I see they are caled "keep-alive messages" and on this computer I'm
still sending them every 60 seconds. Hmmmm.