Standby (and hibernate) are notoriously unreliable on desktop systems. They will invariably fail. My suggestion is to set both modes to "never" and set monitor and hard drive to power down after a period of inactivity that you select.
Thanks for posting. The advantage to standby is at startup XP asks for a password. It differs from a screen saver in that Guests or other users can logon when the machine starts up. It is a nice tool for people (like me) who forget to logoff.
Denny Denham
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March 30th, 2003 03:00
Standby (and hibernate) are notoriously unreliable on desktop systems. They will invariably fail. My suggestion is to set both modes to "never" and set monitor and hard drive to power down after a period of inactivity that you select.
mwf1227
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March 30th, 2003 12:00
Denny,
Thanks for posting. The advantage to standby is at startup XP asks for a password. It differs from a screen saver in that Guests or other users can logon when the machine starts up. It is a nice tool for people (like me) who forget to logoff.