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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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Naio
Explorer II
Nov 13, 2015
Those windows settings don't always work. Depends on what version of windows you have. XP might be ok, but, on the newer versions of windows you can select 'never sleep' all you want but the computer will still sleep.

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