Beyond power save, how to stop everything absolutely shutting down, pls?

[StargateFan]

In my old Win98SE box, power save was great. Things would shut down
but my voice scheduled messages would come on the next morning no
problem.

I'd recently switched from a clock radio to using my computer as a
wake-up device due to the flexibility of the computer over the clock
radio. Trouble is that with my new box, if the computer has been idle
enough hours, everything seems to really shut down as if the computer
were off. If I wake up early enough and jiggle the mouse so that the
screen comes back up, even when it then goes into power save mode, the
alarms work. I know everything shuts down pretty much because when I
jiggle the mouse, my alarm programs prompts me to run scheduled events
it missed, even though nothing was missed of course, it had just shut
down so completely.

How can I avoid having this complete shutdown? I don't see anything
in the power save box that might be the cause of this. There seems to
be an extra box, if my memory is correct, where there is the option in
this XP OS to set the system to "hibernate", whatever that is exactly.
It's set to "never", so I don't know what is causing the system to so
completely shut down without actually shutting down.

Can anyone help with this? It really defeats the purpose to have to
wake up early enough so that I can make sure my alarms come on <lol>.

Thanks. D

 

[Guest]

Try checking your power settings. Go to Control Panel and open Power Options.
See the power scheme settings, whether it is set to standby or hibernate
after certain period of time. Try setting them to 'Never' so that your
computer would not switch off by itself.

Hope this helps