PowerPoint Tips: Avoid hibernation during presentations

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By Ellen Finkelstein

Keep your screen alive during presentations to avoid embarrassing hibernation mode

Have you ever started a presentation, gotten into a discussion with your audience, and found that your laptop went into hibernation because you stopped moving the mouse? It has happened to me and it’s embarrassing!

Mouse Jiggler to the rescue!

Enter Mouse Jiggler. This little program simulates jiggling the mouse, so your laptop doesn’t go to sleep. It even has a “Zen” mode that does the jiggling virtually, that is, invisibly.

The only disadvantage is that there is apparently no way to actually close the program after you minimize it, at least in Windows 7. You have to go to the Task Manager (press Ctrl-Alt-Del and choose Start Task Manager), select Mouse Jiggler on the Applications tab, and click End Task.

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This excerpt is shared with permission from ellenfinkelstein.com.

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