I set up a backup program (Acronis) and a Malwarebyte scan at intervals when
the computer is running with WMP going strong, as well as Thunderbird and
IE. Yet, after a couple of minutes, the computer goes to sleep. According
to the event viewer this is due to "system idle." But the system is clearly
running and is in no way 'idle.' I have the advanced power options set to
SLEEP: NEVER. Is there a way to stop Windows 7 / 64 from reading the system
as idle when scheduled tasks are set up?

Here are the details of the system going to sleep:


Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 11/23/2017 3:52:28 AM
Event ID: 42
Task Category: (64)
Level: Information
Keywords: (4)
User: N/A
Computer: Marc-HP
Description:
The system is entering sleep.

Sleep Reason: System Idle
Event Xml:
Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
System
Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power"
Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" /
EventID42/EventID
Version2/Version
Level4/Level
Task64/Task
Opcode0/Opcode
Keywords0x8000000000000004/Keywords
TimeCreated SystemTime="2017-11-23T11:52:28.400629100Z" /
EventRecordID3950676/EventRecordID
Correlation /
Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="52" /
ChannelSystem/Channel
ComputerMarc-HP/Computer
Security /
/System
EventData
Data Name="TargetState"4/Data
Data Name="EffectiveState"4/Data
Data Name="Reason"7/Data
Data Name="Flags"0/Data
/EventData
/Event