JSI Tip 8925. Freeware Caffeine prevents your PC from locking or going to sleep.

Jerold Schulman

January 16, 2005

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Download and unzip Caffeine.

The readme.txt file contains:

caffeine===============================================================================Run this to prevent your PC screen from locking.  It does this by simulatingthat you've pressed the shift key once every 59 seconds.Double-click the icon to temporarily disable Caffeine, and permit your screento lock.Under Win98:      a key down and then a key up event is simulatedUnder Win2000/XP: a key up event is simulatedThe additional event is required under Windows 98, otherwise the screen willstill lock.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Copyright Tom Revell, [email protected] Software, http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/



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