standby

[Nicole]

whenever I leave my computer idle it will go to
screensaver then after a time swithches to standby. It
will stay on the standby screen for ever do nothing-I
have to manually shutdown & start up to get things moving
again. What can I do to prevent standby ??? Any ideas
Nicole

 

[mike]

change the setting in power options in the control panel
set stand-by to never