Don’t Sleep: Prevent Windows Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernate, Restart

Windows has its own default Power Plans to save energy by turning off the display when there isn’t any activity, for a certain time period. It also put your computer to sleep when you don’t touch your keyboard or move your mouse for the set period of time. However, these may be good power saving options, but there are times our computer may be busy, even when we aren’t actively using its keyboard or mouse. For example, when we are streaming some video, watching a movie, or burning a DVD on our PC, we wouldn’t prefer shutting off the display. Some other examples may include downloading large files, taking hard drive backup etc. in these cases, we don’t even want the machine to go to sleep.

While if your Windows 8 has the Group Policy, you can always use it to Prevent all or specific users from shutting down or restarting Windows computer, Don’t Sleep software will make things easier for you.

Prevent Windows from sleeping or shutting down

We can always change the Power Options so that the PC never goes into sleep or standby mode, these settings will remain the same until you change it again. “Don’t Sleep” can help you, by keeping your computer awake for those long-running tasks that need its full attention. This small but powerful application will keep your computer running as long as any small window is open. Using this freeware, you can prevent Windows shutdown.
The main overview of the program shows all. There is a ‘Blocking’ under ‘Preferences’ where you can block – Standby, Hybrid Sleep, Hibernation, Shutdown, Log off and the appearance of the Sreensaver.

There is also a Timer option given where you can schedule the power options at a specific date and time. From the ‘Option’ tab you can set timer for other functions like. ‘Program set


up and Reactivate PC from standby’

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The ‘System’ tab of the program consists of the direct links to Task Manager, System, Power Config, Desktop, Monitor, System Fonts, Screensaver timeout, User accounts, System



Configuration and System Information.
You can, anytime, exit and stop blocking, exit and shutdown, exit and aggressive shutdown, exit and standby or hibernation and disable blocking.







Don’t Sleep comes in a 45KB zip file and needs no installation on your computer system. It uses a very low amount of system resources and is very simple to use even for the novice computer users.
You can minimize the program to your System Tray and use it when required. To sum up, Don’t Sleep is a great application to use when we don’t want our computer system to go in sleep or hibernation mode.

Don’t Sleep software free download

You can download Don’t Sleep for Windows here. Don’t Sleep is a simple and portable software that doesn’t require any installation. You can also transfer the app in your USB device and run it on your other computers.
You might want to also check out these links:

1. Stop or Prevent Windows 8 from restarting after Windows Updates
2. Stop, Cancel, Abort System Shutdown.

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Keep Your Computer 'Awake' with Mouse Jiggler

By Rick Broida, PCWorld

• Aug 23, 2010 11:38 AM
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Raise your hand if this has happened to you: You're on an airplane, watching a movie on your laptop, when all of a sudden the screen goes dim. Or you're giving a PowerPoint presentation and your PC suddenly goes to sleep.

 These kinds of hassles can happen after a period of "idleness," when the system detects no mouse or keyboard input. Blame Windows' power settings, which by default try to conserve power if they think you're not doing something. (Funny how Windows isn't yet smart enough to know if a movie's playing or there's a projector connected to your laptop.)
As you probably know, all it takes is an occasional jiggle of the mouse to keep the system humming. And that's the idea behind Mouse Jiggler, a free utility that "fakes" mouse input--and saves you from having to mess with Windows' power settings.

Just run this tiny app as needed--say, before you start your movie or presentation--and click Enable Jiggle. Then take your hands off the mouse for a couple seconds. You'll see your pointer start to hop back and forth a tiny bit--enough to trick Windows into stayin' alive.

In some programs (like Windows Media Player), mouse activity like this can have the unwanted effect of making onscreen controls appear. For situations like those, enable Zen Jiggle, which does the "jiggling" behind the scenes, with no actual cursor movement. Clever!

Mouse Jiggler works with all versions of Windows; it requires Microsoft's .Net Framework 2.0 or later.

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/203917/Keep_Your_Computer_Awake_with_Mouse_Jiggler.html

How To Burn ISO To USB

Rufus: The Fastest Tool To Create Bootable USB Drive

June 22, 2012 by admin 3 Comments

Windows users have a lot of good utilities to create a bootable USB using an ISO file and then install Windows from a USB flash drive. Windows 7 DVD/USB Tool, UNetBootin, WinToFlash, and Universal USB installer are the some popular utilities available for the job.

While most of the utilities mentioned above do their job very well, the only catch is that all these tools take considerable amount of time to transfer the ISO onto the USB. Even though power user prefer creating bootable USB drive via command line to third party tools, novice users always prefer third-party tools for the job.

Users who don’t want to use the command prompt method for creating bootable USB media should check out Rufus utility. Rufus is a small utility for Windows and helps you create bootable USB drives. The best thing about this tool is that it’s faster than other tools. According to the developer of the tool, it’s twice as fast as the official Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool, Universal USB installer and UNetBootin tools.

Apart from Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Vista, Windows and Windows 8, this software also supports Arch Linux, Hiren’s Boot CD, Parted Magic, NT Password Registry Editor, Knoppix, Kubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Fedora and many other Linux distributions.

Download, run the utility, select your USB drive and browse to the ISO file to begin transferring ISO file contents onto the USB drive. You might also like to know how to install Windows 7 on USB drive and repair Windows 7 from USB flash drive.

Download Rufus

Link: http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Source: http://www.intowindows.com/rufus-the-best-tool-to-create-bootable-usb-drive/