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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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ralphnjoann
Explorer
Nov 13, 2015
I use a freebie called DontSleep. I put an icon in the taskbar so it's easy to activate. It also has a number of parameters you can set to customize its behavior.

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