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Looking for a program to defeat screensaver
On the Mac, there's a great little piece of freeware called Jiggler, which when running prevents the screensaver from turning on or the computer from going to sleep. Handy when watching a video.
Does anyone know an equivalent for the PC? I know I could mess with the sleep and screensaver settings, but I'd rather do it this way. |
some programs can temporarily disable the screen saver when watching a video, check inside the options of your media player.
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It's my wife's work laptop. She'll need to be playing some DVDs for my son on a long train ride, which is why I'm going for simple-as-possible (sure, she programs huge databases on mainframes, but she hates to fiddle with computers).
The DVDs play with whatever program Windows defaults to when you put a DVD in. Does that one have a screensaver blocker? |
My laptop (Win XP) has different profiles which I can switch when I want it to do different things like not switch the screen off. I think it's under Power Options in the control panel. I switch to Presentation mode when I don't want anything to turn itself off.
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yes.
tools > options > tab: player > allow screensaver durring playback |
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np, but disabling the screen saver is so much easier.
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Any media player worth its salt disables the screen saver when playing a video. If it doesn't then it was coded by morons.
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