How to make screen stay on longer on windows 7

[APlowden]

Hello,
just got new computer hp compac Q 1-2025. unable to sign in windows 7 without the sign in box. also screen only stays on for a few minutes before it got black and have to a key for it to come back on. please help driving me crazy.

 

[verbalizer]

purchase a legit copy of Windows 7 or get a valid key.

 

[APlowden]

thank you but it is legal. hp gave me the answer i needed. thanks anyway.

 

[Hawkeye22]

It sounds like your screen saver or power savings is kicking in. Once logged in, click start and type screensaver into the search box. change the time as needed.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2109-screen-saver-change.html

To change the monitor's sleep timeout, run the command prompt as administrator and type this in:

POWERCFG -Change -monitor-timeout-ac xxx

where xxx is the number of minutes before putting the monitor to sleep.

 

[APlowden]

Best answer selected by Aplowden.

 

[nikorr]

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