How do you temporarily suspend power management and screensaver to prevent
their interfering with defrag, antivirus and chkdsk? Is there an easy way to
switch these things off temporarily.
As mentioned by Bill, you could choose an "always on" power scheme and
then later choose your original power scheme. However, wading through
the Start menu and Control Panel applets is a nuisance and takes time.
You could use the powercfg.exe utility to select which power scheme to
use. Create a shortcut (on your desktop or in a toolbar in the Windows
taskbar) to selects the "always on" power scheme, and another shortcut
that selects your preferred power scheme. To see the parameters you can
specify on the command line, run:
powercfg.exe /?
Use "powercfg /list" to see the names of the schemes that you can then
use in a "powercfg /change <scheme>" command. Of course, if the power
scheme's name has embedded spaces then you need to enclose it in double
quotes to prevent parsing problems for the command line.
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
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Stop your spamming in Usenet! Get rid of this off-topic garbage in your
posts, or place it in a signature.
If your newsgroups provider is appending this garbage to your posts made
through them, they are spamifying all your posts (i.e., you choose to be
their spamming affiliate). If they add this fluff, your posts through
them are spam.
If they aren't appending this spam in the *body* of your post, you do
not have tin properly configured to place this off-topic fluff in a
signature. The "<spaces><dash><space><equals><space><dash><newline>" is
not a signature delimiter. <dash><dash><space><newline> ("-- \n")
starting at the beginning of the line (no leading spaces) is a proper
sigdash delimiter line.
