Gone Soft

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I haven't been a computer programmer since the early 90s. But I still dabble occasionally, and now I've written an amazingly useful program - which you can download and use as much as you want.

My program...waggles the mouse pointer every few minutes. Possibly not the most called-for bit of software, but it solves a problem I've been having with Windows 7 - it goes into standby mode after a few hours, even when I've told it not to.

I've set it to make me a few hundred audiobooks with a text-to-speech reader, which means leaving it to run unattended for a few days while it ploughs through them. Sometimes it's really useful to have a spare laptop for doing things like that.

Anyway, when you run my little program it asks how many minutes to leave between wagglings, then proceeds to waggle forever - or until you press the 'Break' key to stop it. Hibernation, sleep mode, standby and screensavers are avoided, and the laptop does its work uninterrupted.

You can get my program here. Unfortunately you'll have to rename it from "MouseNudge.txt" to "MouseNudge.exe", because GoogleSites won't let me store .exe files.

There's also KeyNudge, which does exactly the same thing, but presses the entirely unused Right-Win key instead.

Happy waggling.

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