Okay, well, that's overdramatic.

My computer keeps going into some kind of sleep mode when I leave it for a while. I don't like this. But all my "Power Schemes" options are grayed out in the "Power Options" thing in the Control Panel. "Hibernate" is not enabled. Is there any other way to control this? It's Windows XP Pro.

Power options are in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg. Do you have anything in there?

Ahh... don't know where that is...? :confused:

Start > Run... > regedit

A whole lot of nothing, it looks like. Is there any way I can copy stuff into there that it'll understand?

Here's a copy of mine. Copy-paste into a text editor, save it as .reg and then double-click on the .reg file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg]
"CurrentPowerPolicy"="0"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy]
"Policies"=hex:01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,10,00,00, 00,00,00,00,00,03,\
00,00,00,10,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00 ,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00 ,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,02,00,00,00 ,04,00,00,c0,01,00,00,00,\
02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,0a,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03 ,00,00,00,01,00,01,00,01,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 ,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 ,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,\
00,16,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\0]
"Name"="Home/Office Desk"
"Description"="This scheme is suited to most home or desktop computers that are left plugged in all the time."
"Policies"=hex:01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00, 00,02,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,2c,01,00,00,32,32 ,00,03,02,00,00,00,02,00,\
00,00,00,00,3d,77,2e,f2,07,00,00,00,00,00,2c,01,00 ,00,00,00,00,00,58,02,00,\
00,00,00,64,64,64,64,91,7c

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\1]
"Name"="Portable/Laptop"
"Description"="This scheme is designed for extended battery life for portable computers on the road."
"Policies"=hex:01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00, 00,02,00,00,00,01,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b0,04,00,00,2c,01,00,00,32,32 ,03,03,04,00,00,00,04,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,84,03,00,00,2c,01,00 ,00,08,07,00,00,2c,01,00,\
00,01,01,64,50,64,64,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\2]
"Name"="Presentation"
"Description"="This scheme keeps the monitor on for doing presentations."
"Policies"=hex:01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00, 00,02,00,00,00,01,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,84,03,00,00,32,32 ,03,02,04,00,00,00,04,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 ,00,00,00,00,00,2c,01,00,\
00,01,01,50,50,64,64,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\3]
"Name"="Always On"
"Description"="This scheme keeps the computer running so that it can be accessed from the network. Use this scheme if you do not have network wakeup hardware."
"Policies"=hex:01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00, 00,02,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,32,32 ,00,00,04,00,00,00,04,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b0,04,00,00,84,03,00 ,00,00,00,00,00,08,07,00,\
00,00,01,64,64,64,64,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\4]
"Name"="Minimal Power Management"
"Description"="This scheme keeps the computer on and optimizes it for high performance."
"Policies"=hex:01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00, 00,02,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,2c,01,00,00,32,32 ,03,03,04,00,00,00,04,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,84,03,00,00,2c,01,00 ,00,00,00,00,00,84,03,00,\
00,00,01,64,64,64,64,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\5]
"Name"="Max Battery"
"Description"="This scheme is extremely aggressive for saving power."
"Policies"=hex:01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00, 00,02,00,00,00,05,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b0,04,00,00,78,00,00,00,32,32 ,03,02,04,00,00,00,04,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,84,03,00,00,3c,00,00 ,00,00,00,00,00,b4,00,00,\
00,01,01,64,32,64,64,00,00

Problem solved. Thank you! :D