Something is wrong for a program to run that long just overwriting files.
Change your power options to sleep never. But I would strongly suggest you
look at the program. There is no reason for it to take 5 hours to overwrite
files, unless you're working with many, many thousands of files.
Tyro
"Larry" <> wrote in message
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> I'm new to Vista. I have a Compaq laptop with Vista.
>
> My problem is this:
>
> I want to run a program that over-writes deleted files on my hard
> drive. It takes about five hours to run. When my computer has
> been running for about 20 minutes, it goes into a sleep (whatever
> the term is). The trouble is this program will not continue while
> the computer screen is blank (off? asleep ?).
>
> I hate to have to sit by it and touch it every fifteen minutes to keep
> it active. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong ?
>
> .
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