Need help with HP Window 7 computer

Hey everyone,
My mother is visiting me at a location that doesn't have a best buy too close by and her computer keeps blue screening whenever she lets it idle longer than 5 minutes. We are tryiing to figure out how to temporarily fix this issue till she flies home and can take her computer in to a Geek Squad. She does her schooling online so if anyone has experienced something like this before with their computer and knows a way to temporarily correct the issue I would really appreciate the help.
The laptop computer she has an HP Pavillion Entertainment PC and runs Windows 7. Her spyware is Spysweeper and the computer is about 2 years old.

Or you could try shutting off hibernation, sleep, and anything like that in the power options so that it runs all the time, both on battery and on power cord. See if it still does it. Don't know what good disabling start up items are going to do you in this case.
Crystal
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We love seeing pro-active thinking here at the Discussions! You're off to a great start!
And you've pretty well got the right idea of what has to be done. A few points to make things go a bit smoother, though.
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