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old_remixit

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January 25th, 2005 16:00

WinXP keeps going into Standby mode

I have a Dell 8400 desktop that's 2 months old...XP Home SP2 installed with McAfee Security Center.
 
The problem is: every 30 mins my pc goes into Standby mode.  I've looked in Control Panel's Power and Display Settings (to check for screensaver) and they are not set to go into standby and no screensaver is active.  Is this in the BIOS?  How can I disable this?
 
It's VERY annoying because when it goes into Standby, it kills the network connection (so if I am downloading a large file and it's taking a long time, when it goes into Standby it kills the connection!).  It also brings me back to the XP login page (which will say my name and my wife's name and state the number of running apps) which stinks.
 
A friend mentioned the setting could be in the Users area of XP and that XP is logging out the user...how do I find this Users area of XP?  Maybe it's there.
 
If you have experienced this and know the answer, can you please give me a step by step solution.  I don't know the keystroke to get into the BIOS if that's where I need to go.
 
Thanks in advance!
 
-Eric

Message Edited by old_remixit on 01-25-2005 12:50 PM

Message Edited by old_remixit on 01-26-2005 07:59 AM

Augie65

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January 25th, 2005 17:00

You might need to go to start, control panel,performance and maintenance,power options,on power schemes, check what your monitor is set to turn off. My laptop is set for 2 hrs, hard disk 5 hrs, and standby 5 hrs, all when pluged in. Of course with a desktop you are always pluged in. Your monitor may be set to turn off every 30 minutes. Hope this helps you.

old_remixit

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January 25th, 2005 18:00

Although I am not at home right now, that is the same screen as the Power area in Control Panel.
 
As I stated, I have checked numerous times the Power area for anything regarding timeouts and Standby modes...nothing is set to go into Standby.
 
A friend told me to check the Users area of XP Home...something about that if you have multiple users in XP Home, XP can log someone out if they have not done anything for a certain amount of time...although this is pretty much identical in functionality to the Power option, it seems to be a different area of XP to enable/disable this feature.
 
Does anyone know how/where to find the Users area so I can check?
 
-Eric

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