Long Downloads Pause

[jcvmw]

When I am downloading a file and during this download if I leave my computer long enough so that my screen saver kicks in, its pauses my down load. Now I know the easy solution is to do and turn off the screen saver, but there are time over night I do not want to do this when I have very large data files to download and I need to keep my screen saver on as it will take several hours, even with my high speed connection, to down load some of the files I am required too.

What is my resolve?

[mho]

When I am downloading a file and during this download if I leave my computer long enough so that my screen saver kicks in, its pauses my down load.

Check your Power settings in Windows. It's probably not just the screen saver that kicks in; perhaps the computer also turns off the hard disk and/or network card - or even enters some kind of sleep mode.

- mho

[DThor]

Apart from that, the first thing I do is set my screen saver from the usual to 'black'. I don't need pointless animations chewing up cpu cycles.

I'm pretty sure mho is right, though, it's probably your power settings.

DT

[jcvmw]

Checked my power savings, thought I had it right, it was set not to turn anything off and set on performance. To turn off dd and sc was set to never.

So i will find a work around on this screen saver.
Thanks

[klawdek]

Screen savers have always caused problems with running programs.

If you have a flat screen the screen saver is completely unnecessary. You cannot burn an image into the phosphor of a flat screen . They do not work that way at all!

[mho]

Screen savers have always caused problems with running programs.

If you have a flat screen the screen saver is completely unnecessary. You cannot burn an image into the phosphor of a flat screen :roll: . They do not work that way at all!

...but you can burn out the backlight - it has a limited number of hours:-)

- mho

[klawdek]

Thank you for correcting me on that. Do the backlights burn out on TVs as well?

[mho]

Thank you for correcting me on that. Do the backlights burn out on TVs as well?

Yes. (Well, if it's LED, I doubt it (in practice), but the traditional kind will run out, eventually)

- mho