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Disabling idle sensitivity

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by sunilguptasg

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I have a dos program that emulates a client server networked program by polling a network shared messaging text file.

The issue is that after some time windows 98, kicks in it's idle sensitivity and brings down the program.

Apparently WIN98 monitors only keyboard activity to decide wether the program is idle.

How do I turn off this windows 'feature' or programitically fool WIN98?

SUNIL GUPTA

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by sunilguptasg

No this does not help. Are you sure that this disables idle sensitivity. I understand that windows 'looks' for keyboard strokes and despite the fact that the dos program is making I/O calls to the hard disk as well as the screen, causes my remote clients to time out.

by seagull data services

Go to Control Panel (Start|settings|Control Panel) and in the Power Management applet you can create a powersaving profile which doesn't switch off anything by setting all the options on the Power Schemes tab to "Never"
Hope this helps
John

by sunilguptasg

The problem is that other windows processes are running and are being used. So how will the power saving features help?

SUNIL

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