Stims

In order to save energy, there are different situations and computer functions which can alter the current runtime state of your computer, mostly when it’s idle. Chances are the operating system wrongly interprets this, putting some important tasks at risk. Luckily, you can rely on specialized applications like Stims to prevent automatic shutdown and more.

Setup takes you through a series of steps by the end of which you can even have the application launched. It resides to the tray area, which is actually how you see and get to interact with it. There’s no window to work with, but all functions are neatly organized in the associated menu.

Core functions of the application include options to prevent automatic shutdown of the computer, and simulate activity, even if it’s idle. This greatly comes in handy whenever you run particular power saving modes, which can put your computer to sleep, even if there’s some important processes still running.

You notice there’s a stim menu, with various time values ranging from 20 minutes to 2 days. These represent the time options for selected application functions to remain active, thus bypassing almost any other kind of program function attempting to shutdown, restart, or put your PC to sleep.

You can choose to prevent shutdown and restart, and make the application run with Windows, so that functions become active as soon as you reach the desktop. More than that, the application can simulate activity through the key press function, thus tricking the computer into thinking it’s continuously being used.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Stims is the type of application you might want to have around and keep active whenever your computer performs automated tasks when you’re away. It helps keep data structures intact, preventing it from triggering different other states which can lead to loss of info.