Re: sleep mode



"td88" <td88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9487970C-1601-44F0-8706-FE8E6B423DEE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sorry, Roy, I'm a stone age CRT user. Any problems with my setting in that
case?

Thank you.

"Roy Smith" wrote:



"td88" <td88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My sleep mode has spontaneously started invoking every 30 to 60 > seconds.
> Annoying. I've gone to desktop/properties/screen saver and found the > time
> set
> to 60 seconds, which is not a setting I made or changed.
>
> I changed it to 5 min.'s. Will this present any problems? Overheating,
> etc.?
> If not good, can you recommend a time?
>
> I have a one year old hp xw 4400 with windows xp 32 bit .

You're talking about the screen saver. Actually if you are using a LCD
monitor and not a CRT monitor, you can disable the screen saver entirely.
The mail reason it's there is in the earlier days when CRT type monitors
were the norm, displaying a constant image on it would eventually burn it
into the screen phosphors. Modern LCD monitors don't have that problem, so
a screen saver isn't really needed.

One of my desktop PC's is still using a CRT monitor, so don't feel bad. As for the time, sure that's fine, you could make it a little longer too, like say 10 minutes or so.

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