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Computer sleeps while busy

bradly1101

bradly1101

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I've always had this problem. I like aggressive power management and set my Win7 PC to sleep after 15 min. of inactivity. But if it is busy encoding or streaming to my tablet, it will go to sleep.

I've scoured the web looking for a solution, and all I could find was MS message board comments that power management only looks to whether the mouse and keyboard are busy. Is there a way to keep it from sleeping while it's busy with other things?
 
It is up to the app your using to notify the os it needs the display or system via the SetThreadExecutionState API. You could try using other apps that do that or contact the authors of the apps you are using.
 
There are also probably apps you can download that will keep the system alive while open. You'd have to remember to close them though or the system will never sleep. I could write a really basic one for you if you can't find one. It is about 10 min of work. Pm me if interested.
 
nickbits said:
It is up to the app your using to notify the os it needs the display or system via the SetThreadExecutionState API. You could try using other apps that do that or contact the authors of the apps you are using.
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That's built into the latest version of Handbrake, but that version crashes. I'll check to see if there's an update.

For the streaming see below.
 
nickbits said:
There are also probably apps you can download that will keep the system alive while open. You'd have to remember to close them though or the system will never sleep. I could write a really basic one for you if you can't find one. It is about 10 min of work. Pm me if interested.
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The streaming program (Remote Potato Server) has a lot of options, but not that one. It's always on in the background (which I want) and the system should sleep while it's open, just not while it's sending a video stream. Is that possible?
 
This is set this way (default) but it still sleeps:

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I'm just lazy. If I'm streaming from bed, I don't want to get up and put the 'puter to sleep.

I just looked and I'll get an Android remote desktop app.
 
This is simple Portable App, you can use the timer to set it to expire after certain period of time so that you do not have to get out of bad (G_d Forbid).


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