tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914943532407940217.post5489043314520195021..comments2023-05-12T09:33:48.629-04:00Comments on I woke up thinkin' ...: About Windows Vista and my frustrationCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261676040987810279noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2914943532407940217.post-22017549863706332152008-02-11T03:42:00.000-05:002008-02-11T03:42:00.000-05:00Between the screensaver and energy saving features...Between the screensaver and energy saving features, watching a movie or tv is often pretty difficult to do without interruption from these beasts. Some players have an option (like WMP) to disable the screensaver during playback, some don't. Quicktime definitely doesn't disable the power saving features like turning off the monitors during playback. I don't know about screen savers, there's no option and these days I have my screen saver and energy saving features set to 4-5 hours.<BR/><BR/>I also sleep in the same room as the computer and often find the bright white light more annoying than having to go around and turn off all them monitors by hand, and then remember to turn them back on in the morning while I'm groggy.<BR/><BR/>Two tricks for doing this. For just dealing with the brightness I set black/dark backgrounds and use Windows+D to show the desktops when I go to bed, thus producing little light until the screen saver gets around to kicking in. It's worth noting too that I've actually got an LCD monitor with burn-in now from screensavers not turning on due to WMP playing music or something.<BR/><BR/>The other that probably works for you is Windows+L, which will lock your screen. As an IT person, I'm used to "Ctrl+Alt+Delete Space" to lock a machine at work, this works too and it's all muscle memory at this point but those that don't use this usually pick up Windows+L faster.btmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630613444609508877noreply@blogger.com