How to prevent PC from going to standby ever?

[Kovis]

I have a pretty recent HP laptop and have deactivated all power saving
settings in the control panel. However, if no one has logged on to
Windows, after some time the laptop still goes to standby. If a user
has been logged on, standby never occurs.

How to prevent this from happening? BIOS doesn't seem to contain any
settings related to this.

 

[Nepatsfan]

I have a pretty recent HP laptop and have deactivated all power saving
settings in the control panel. However, if no one has logged on to
Windows, after some time the laptop still goes to standby. If a user
has been logged on, standby never occurs.

How to prevent this from happening? BIOS doesn't seem to contain any
settings related to this.

Take a look at the Turn Off the Logon Screen Saver section of this article.

How to change the Windows Logon screen saver in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314493

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Lisa]

Control Panel>Power Options>Power Schemes. In the System standby box choose
never.

 

[Kovis]

Thanks Nepatsfan,

That was a good tip. I will give it a try.

 

[Plato]

I have a pretty recent HP laptop and have deactivated all power saving
settings in the control panel. However, if no one has logged on to
Windows, after some time the laptop still goes to standby. If a user
has been logged on, standby never occurs.

How to prevent this from happening? BIOS doesn't seem to contain any
settings related to this.

Kind of weird to say the least. XP power saving is hit or miss.