The customer is always right [Updated free tool and source code to prevent a machine from going to sleep!]

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• Anonymous
  February 01, 2010
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• Anonymous
  February 02, 2010
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• Anonymous
  February 03, 2010
  Why not just change the "Run: Normal window" drop down in that last screenshot to "Run: Minimized"? Or is the KISS approach not OK for some reason?

• Anonymous
  February 04, 2010
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• Anonymous
  May 31, 2010
  What about the other request to hide the tray icon by default when run once as an option and make it appear in the tray if run the second time?

• Anonymous
  May 31, 2010
  anonymuos, For a sample like this one, I don't think I like the idea of running the executable and having it hide itself completely away by default. The idea that running it a second time would show the notification icon is a nice way of handling the possible user confusion, but (as I said in a reply to a different request above) would increase the complexity of the sample. Given that I'm not sure this new behavior would be something most people would want, I've opted not to implement it so far.

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2010
  Looks great now that it's minimizable! I like the idea of this method of sleep-prevention more than the methods used by some other programs, which trigger a key-press or a mouse-movement (even if they're just for a fraction of a second, I'd worry about it interfering with something I might be doing at just the wrong moment). But I am wondering, could you please try to clarify which OSes this program should work on? Windows 2000? Windows XP 32 / 64? Windows Vista 32 / 64? Windows 7 32 / 64? Server 2000? Server 2003 32 / 64? Server 2008 32 / 64? I'm surmizing it should be 'all of the above' hopefully, but confirmation would be nice. :-)

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2010
  Anonymous, The underlying SetThreadExecutionState API is documented to work on Windows 2000 Professional/Server and later (independent of 32-/64-bittedness). Insomnia is a .NET 3.5 WPF application; .NET 3.5 is documented to work on  Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 7 (regardless of 32-/64-bit). Therefore, I'd expect Insomnia to work on any machine that satisfies both requirements. :)

• Anonymous
  October 06, 2012
  David... Thank you for this program!!! The 32 & 64 bit versions of the file won't start minimized using: -minimize However, the file in the .NET folder works as described.

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2012
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• Anonymous
  October 10, 2012
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