B-Bye, Standby
I have an old laptop set up next to my home theater stuff. I believe there are others that likely have a similar setup. I primarily use mine to play music from a big external drive nice and loud through the best speakers in the house via a little USB sound “card” thingy.
So what, right?
Well, there’re a few things that are important (aside from the above):
- I’m lazy.
- I stream music to my Moto Droid and other computers with Subsonic.
- I access the machine remotely with LogMeIn.
- The laptop would often, inexplicably, enter the SLEEP state even though I had it set to NEVER enter sleep.
That third point is especially problematic when I’m away from home and want to listen to some music, get some files, or test something remotely. Or, even hear some music over the nice loud speakers when I’m sitting right in front of them, initiated over good old Windows Remote Desktop from the laptop on my lap while I sit on the couch. BUT I CAN’T DO THAT IF THE DAMN MACHINE IS IN SLEEP MODE.
After much googling and fellow geek consultation (I'm looking at you, Anthony and Leonard), I stumbled upon a loathsome (but useful) Experts Exchange link. Luckily I was able to view the solution without signing up for a lifetime of spam.
I installed the following from this wacky site that has all kinds of stuff that can seriously mess up your machine that’s running XP:
| Disable Stand-by: Per User or Per System |
| Disable Standby |
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