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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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OutdoorPhotogra
Explorer
Nov 16, 2015
I would caution on having an XP computer connected to the internet since it is no longer supported. Are you running good third party security software to protect vulnerabilities? There are more knowledgable people on here than me but you need more than virus protection since XP isn't supported and vulnerabilities are no longer patched.

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