SUMMARY: Help prevent the screensaver from starting or the computer from going to sleep with the freeware Mouse Jiggler.Windows users - are you waiting for a download to complete and want to monitor its progress from across the room? Are you watching a long Internet video or listening to music while a visualization is playing? Or are you scanning an interesting or important auto-refreshed Twitter feed?
Depending on your configuration, do any of the above and your screensaver might activate, your monitor might blank, or worse your computer may go to sleep or hibernate. To help stop this from happening without delving through a myriad of configuration items you can run "Mouse Jiggler" (sometimes called "MouseJiggle").
"Mouse Jiggler" does one simple task - it "jiggles" or moves the mouse pointer when you are not moving it yourself. This movement should stop idle processes from activating such as running a screensaver. While you might find the animated pointer interesting, it can make normal computer use difficult, so after running the software check "Zen jiggle" to fake the mouse movement signal to Windows without actually having the pointer move around.
More information and a download link can be found at the following site. Note that this requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 Redistributable if not already installed on your system:
* Mouse Jiggler
This tip was written regarding Mouse Jiggler v1.2 running on a Windows Vista system. Features, information, and screenshots for other versions / operating systems may vary.
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