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Thunder_Mountai
Explorer II
Nov 13, 2015

Found a program preventing the computer from sleeping!

I have an old clunker Dell Inspiron laptop running XP. The only thing it is used for is a Davis Instruments weather station and security/webcam. I want to keep it awake all the time when we are away f...
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sch911
Explorer
Nov 13, 2015
It's really an easy few settings to keep Win XP (or any version of Windows for that matter) awake all the time. As stated Control Panel > Power Settings. No third party apps needed. We do this all the time for data acquisition systems used for work testing....

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