>>i personally know of several dozen with today's fast(er)
>>machines all running Win98SE... i maintain about half of
>>them for them... since they insist on turning the things
>>off when they aren't sitting in front of them, i can't
>>autoschedule things like virus scans, virus scanner
>>updates, other protective software updates, ad and
>>spyware scans and other such administrivia...

 MP> You can't turn that off in the BIOS somehow?

turn what off? the ability to hit the big red switch? no, i don't think so ;)

 MP> At work, they recently set us all up with brand-new
 MP> Dells.  The monitor will turn itself off, but the
 MP> machine is set up not to... all that happens there
 MP> is that XP locks after about 10 minutes inactivity.

right, but you can still do a shutdown which is what these folk are
doing... they use it like a toaster...

  ie: sit down
      turn on the power
      do their thing
      do a system shutdown
      turn off the power

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