Temporarily turn off power management / screensaver for watching movies

Temporarily turn off power management / screensaver for watching movies

When watching a movie on my PC (in a flash player widget in FireFox on Windows Vista), I would like to be able to tell my PC not to switch the screen off or put the screensaver on. Now I can go into power options and change these settings, and set them back after the movie, but I was wondering if there is some kind of utility that I can one-click to say - no screensaver or auto power down for next 2/3 hours?

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"You could just set a power profile, or set the existing ""High performance"" setting, to not show screensaver. So rather than changing a bunch of setting, all you do is change from a balanced power mode to a high performance one. You could change back afterwards, but I think that the balanced will be in place on restart.

Using Win + b to get to system tray, right arrow and enter and up (or down) would change the setting more quickly. You could set a Autohotkey script to automate this, perhaps with a ""if [media] window active"" rule."