. . .Everything works fine after boot-up and while the machine is being used, but if the owner (my boss) gets up and goes away for ten or fifteen minutes, with no apps open, just the desktop showing -- on his return the system is completely frozen. On pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, after a LONG time, the Close Program appears and one or other of the items shows "not responding". On closing that down, the system sometimes unfreezes but hangs again and then another item is "not responding" ... and so on. After a reboot everything again works fine, until the next time that he leaves his workstation for more than a few minutes -- when the system hangs yet again!
Can anyone offer any sugestions as to why this might be happening, and a possible solution?
Check power settings, that is, the items that may be turned off at a period of inactivity.
MyComputer/Control Panel/ Power Management/Power Schemes
OR
MyComputer/Control Panel/ Display/ Screen Saver/Energy saivngs...Settings
More settings can be found in your PCs BIOS under titles like APM Power Management, PM times, Power Management, etc.
MS has an article describing Power Management http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/onnow/winpowmgmt_Print.mspx
I also found a nice web page that covers these settings pretty well http://hardwarehell.com/articles/power.htm
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