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Shawn --

The settings are not to invoke the screen saver at 0 minutes, but you
can set the screen saver's properties such that it blanks the screen
0 (or whatever number) of minutes after it starts.

In other words, if you have the settings for your screen saver to activate
after 15 minutes of inactivity at the keyboard / mouse, you can, in addition
tell the screen saver to go to a blank screen  n minutes  after
'activation.'

Click on the settings button in the screen saver tab of the display
properties
dialog box.  (easiest way to get there is to right-click somewhere on your
blank desktop).

This screen blanking does save a tremendous amount of processing time!

Hope this helps!

Bryan

S.D.C. wrote in message <3771fb17.120218034@news.magmacom.com>...
>Well, on my workstations I wouldn't want to set the screen saver to 0
>mins.  That's not the problem anyway.  As I stated, if there was some
>way to make this program automatically start and stop are a particular
>time (*without* 3rd party software), I'd run it on many more systems.
>I have a number of servers that do nothing during the night.
>
>It is interesting that Win98 is much faster and Win NT workstations
>are faster than Win NT servers (both with about same workload).
>
>I also placed the SETI@HOME on a HP Vectra VL (P133) w/Win95 32mb RAM.
>This system has been running for 45 hours and 28 minutes and has only
>reached 49% completion.  That's why I question whether or not the
>software is optimized as much as it could be?   I'd like to experiment
>with how much more time is required to render the pretty graphics.
>
>Shawn
>
>
>"Aninoquisi" <star@watcher.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Shawn,
>>Make sure you have the S@H preferences set to run only during the screen
>>saver mode, then set the screen saver settings, to blank the screen after
0
>>mins. This is about all you can do to speed up the program. Some have
>>reported that modifying the system.ini file's vcache helps, but I've seen
no
>>improvement by doing so. It may depend on the platform being used, or the
>>amount of background programs running.
>>Jim
>>S.D.C. <gempac@hotmaildeletethis.com> wrote in message
>>news:37713a2f.70843597@news.magmacom.com...
>>> <snip>
>>> This seems quite slow and I wondering if this software has been
>>> optimized.  I could dedicate about 15 systems to this project if this
>>> software had a start/stop time capabilities.
>>>
>>> Shawn
>>
>>
>
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