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Stop programs preventing Windows 7 from scheduled idle shutdown.
Hello there,
I've been searching, unsuccessfully, for a solution to this without resorting to third party programs.
My nephews Windows 7 machine automatically locks at certain times to prevent him going on it or just to get him off of it at bed time.
At this time he is usually playing Minecraft and it locks with the game running. The computer is also set during the day so that is he doesn't use it for an hour it shuts down. I did have it set to go to sleep but it seems to show a BSOD after waking up again, plus I always feel resuming from sleeping just generally causes problems.
Now the problem I have is that if it locks in the evening while he is playing his game, then it stops the pc from idling and the scheduled shut down I have set after an hour of idling then doesn't kick in.
Does anyone have an idea of how to change this to either set the idling state when there is simply no keyboard or mouse input or to perhaps close the program at a certain time?
I'm aware there are third party programs that can accomplish this but I generally don't like using too many programs or things. If I really have to then I will do.
Also I noticed that the monitor still goes to sleep. I guess this is set using just the mouse and keyboard input.
Many thanks
William.