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Every time my Windows XP goes on screensaver mode - my uTorrent downloads
halt even though the disks and the cpu were told to stay alive.

If I turn off the screensaver, the uTorrent bittorrent downloads proceed.

How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the WinXP screensaver goes on
vacation?

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Best -- Donna Richoux

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:10:12 -0500, Frosty wrote:
>>How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the WinXP screensaver goes on
>>vacation?
>
> Why do you run a screensaver?

To save my screen.

But why would a screensaver turn off the torrent download?

Doesn't a screensaver JUST turn off the video display?

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Best -- Donna Richoux

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:17:22 GMT, Donna Richoux <>
wrote:

>To save my screen.
>
>But why would a screensaver turn off the torrent download?
>
>Doesn't a screensaver JUST turn off the video display?

Likely it's not the screensaver turning off the utorrent but the
utorrent turning off because of the screensaver.

Did you look in like Options or preference for something to do with
screensavers or idle usage?

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:20:35 -0700 in 24hoursupport.helpdesk Donna
Richoux <>, intended to write something intelligible,
but instead wrote :

>
>Every time my Windows XP goes on screensaver mode - my uTorrent downloads
>halt even though the disks and the cpu were told to stay alive.
>
>If I turn off the screensaver, the uTorrent bittorrent downloads proceed.
>
>How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the WinXP screensaver goes on
>vacation?


Why do you run a screensaver?

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:57:24 -0500, Frosty wrote:
>>>>How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the
>>>>WinXP screensaver goes on vacation?
>>> Why do you run a screensaver?
>>To save my screen.
> But what exactly are you trying to save your screen from?

I guess it's "burn in" but the screensaver also acts as a login preventer
to keep others from logging in while I am away.

Isn't that the whole point of a screensaver?

I still want to prevent burn in and unauthorized use when I'm away longer
than I expected - yet I still want the uTorrent downloads to proceed
normally (hence I kept the disks and cpu running in the power-save
options).

Does YOUR screensaver cause uTorrent to stop downloading & uploading?
Or is it just mine?

--
Best -- Donna Richoux

In article <>,
says...
>
> Every time my Windows XP goes on screensaver mode - my uTorrent downloads
> halt even though the disks and the cpu were told to stay alive.
>
> If I turn off the screensaver, the uTorrent bittorrent downloads proceed.
>
> How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the WinXP screensaver goes on
> vacation?
>

Maybe setting the option 'Prevent stand-by if there are active
torrents' on Preferences -> Downloads will help.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:31:57 +0100, Gert van der Kooij wrote:
>> How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the WinXP screensaver goes on
>> vacation?

> Maybe setting the option 'Prevent stand-by if there are active
> torrents' on Preferences -> Downloads will help.

I should have mentioned that this option was already set.

I suspect what I "think" is a WinXP screensaver is doing MORE than just
saving the screen. Either that or the quiescent activity might be turning
off my ISP connection at the NAT router.

Do you think that's a possibility?

--
Best -- Donna Richoux

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:17:22 GMT in 24hoursupport.helpdesk Donna
Richoux <>, intended to write something intelligible,
but instead wrote :

>On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:10:12 -0500, Frosty wrote:
>>>How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the WinXP screensaver goes on
>>>vacation?
>>
>> Why do you run a screensaver?
>
>To save my screen.

Yeah, hence the name. But what exactly are you trying to save your
screen from?
>
>But why would a screensaver turn off the torrent download?
>
>Doesn't a screensaver JUST turn off the video display?

Donna Richoux "contributed" in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

> I suspect what I "think"

Get a functional brain first, you ****ing mad cow.

--
Your mother was a pitiful broccoli who worshipped cheese spread in the
boiler of a disused steam locomotive.

"Frosty" <> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:31:11 GMT in 24hoursupport.helpdesk Donna
> Richoux <>, intended to write something intelligible,
> but instead wrote :
>
>>On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:57:24 -0500, Frosty wrote:
>>>>>>How do I keep the uTorrent alive even when the
>>>>>>WinXP screensaver goes on vacation?
>>>>> Why do you run a screensaver?
>>>>To save my screen.
>>> But what exactly are you trying to save your screen from?
>>
>>I guess it's "burn in" but the screensaver also acts as a login preventer
>>to keep others from logging in while I am away.
>
> Yeah, that's what they were originally used for, but they are no
> longer needed.
> (Some smart computer person will maybe chime in and tell us both
> exactly why that is?)

Not entirely true. Color CRTs are still subject to damage, but it's much
less than the old monochrome models.

See the section under "Problems":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_display