vista locking down when idle

[Chrysalis]

I have mirc irc chat app catching text and running scripts 24/7 on a windows vista machine, I used to run it on windows XP with no problems. Since moving it to vista the app and wscript work correctly whilst I am using the machine, I access it over remote desktop. The problems are when idle.

If I logout of remote desktop during the time logged out it doesnt work properly.

If I stay logged in but its idle it also breaks.

The moment I do something on the machine it starts working correctly again.

Have checked power saving options.

Screen saver for user is disabled.

Hard drive power down disabled.

Hibernate disabled.

Sleep disabled.

Display power off disabled.

Have tried disabling both windows defender and the nod32 anti virus but they are not causing the problem.

The exact issue is this, normally mirc catches some text in a chat channel it sends the text to wscript to process some data looking up on a website, wscript processes the data and returns it to mirc and mirc then parses the data and writes to a logfile.

When idle wscript appears to actually work as I see the dumps of text from the website lookups are correct but the part where mirc processes the dumped data isnt working its finding null values.

My query is what does windows vista do on a default installation when idle and if anyone has any ideas what may be causing the problem, I see a lot of stuff in windows scheduler that 'may' affect it but have already disabled just about everything I deem not critical with no affect.

This is driving me nuts and ideally dont want to roll back to windows xp as the auto tuning tcp feature of vista is working well and speeding up the lookups.

UAC is also currently disabled although this appears to not be the cause but I am disabling as much as possible to try and find out what might be going on.

[Chrysalis]

ok have figured out the problem but dont know a good solution, its remote desktop. Remote desktop doesnt update the screen live when in the background or if session locked out, the workaround I have is to login locally before leaving the machine idle however this is far from ideal as I have to go to the machine just to login before leaving it idle.

1 - can I do a reg tweak or something to allow remote desktop and local login silmutaneously?

2 - if not what alternative software is reccomended? like openvnc or something