Windows timeout function
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 9:17 am
Posted by alphaa10
(2 messages posted)
My system freezes after a certain period of inactivity at my browser (Netscape 7.2),
as I read from the screen without keystrokes or mouse movement.
I am on broadband, with modem connected to an SMC BR14UP router, and my computer
is the only machine currently connected.
To eliminate the freeze, I must ALT-CTL-DEL to Task Manager and kill the browser
session. Then, restarting the browser session usually works-- until the next period
of inactivity.
Once or twice, Windows 98 has presented on startup a message "Windows went into Time
Out during the last three sessions and became unresponsive. Do you wish to eliminate
Time Out function?" I indicated yes, and hope that has taken care of the problem--
but I recall I said yes to a previous prompt.
How should I modify the Windows Time Out function? Is it a registry hack or a control
panel issue? My research in Windows98 Secrets indicates the problem may be an incompatible
setting between my modem and ISP.
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