Windows 7 hangs after longer inactivity of user

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Published on 2010-01-21T17:33:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 9:03 UTC
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I have serveral PCs running Windows 7 in different falvors (32- / 64-bit / Professional / Ultimate / ATI / Nvidia) - they all have one problem in common...

...if I don't work on any of them for a longer time and the screen goes off as it should be (all default settings!) they sometimes go into some kind of sleep mode where I get to see the desktop or whatever I did before leaving after moving the mouse or pressing a key - but nothing reacts for a different amount of time from serveral seconds to serveral minutes!

Any hint that helps solving this anoying problem would be very welcome ;-)

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