Vista Remote Desktop disables monitor power saving.

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JohnD

Hello All,

I can connect fine to my office Vista machine (via Remote Desktop) from my
XP box at home. However whenever I get back into the office the monitor on
the Vista machine is on. Clearly the power saving and/or screensaver has
been disabled by the remote desktop connection.

This is certainly not "green", and eventually may give me some burn in
problems on the monitor (OK, that may take too long to worry about).

Is there a setting I've missed somewhere?

Cheers,

John.
 
Hi John,

Vista should revert to default power settings when you log on remotely as
when you do it goes to the logon screen locally. When you logoff it should
remain at the local logon screen. If power settings for the system are set
to shut down the monitor or go to a screensaver then these should kick in.
Something may be interfering with this process, but can be difficult to
discern. If you are concerned with this, you may want to simply turn the
monitor off when you leave the office.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
OK Rick,

Not ideal, but it's "greener" that way too.

I do have "shut down monitor after 10 minutes" set, but when I come in it is
on and displaying the local login screen. But, if as you say, it's
"difficult to discern" why its failing I'll go with the power switch. I'd
guess that its a bug in Vista somewhere though (or perhaps in the video
drivers).

/john
 
Hello..

the problem existed in XP and now perhaps its still in Vista

Here is a registry edit that enables the power off for XP when in the
welcome screen mode
after someone logs in remotely. I have not tested it yet with vista.. but
you may want to try it
after you make a restore point of course:

copy the exact text into a notepad file and rename the file to have a .reg
extension,
then double click it to enter it into the registry....

As I said, I didn't have the chance to test it on vista yet.. so if you try
it please tell us if this resolved your problem.

Copy paste the below code:
-------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"PowerOffActive"="1"
"ScreenSaveActive"="1"
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="(None)"
 
Hi Tiberius,

Nope, I tried that ,and it's made not difference whatsoever.

/john

Tiberius said:
Hello..

the problem existed in XP and now perhaps its still in Vista

Here is a registry edit that enables the power off for XP when in the
welcome screen mode
after someone logs in remotely. I have not tested it yet with vista.. but
you may want to try it
after you make a restore point of course:

copy the exact text into a notepad file and rename the file to have a .reg
extension,
then double click it to enter it into the registry....

As I said, I didn't have the chance to test it on vista yet.. so if you
try it please tell us if this resolved your problem.

Copy paste the below code:
-------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"PowerOffActive"="1"
"ScreenSaveActive"="1"
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="(None)"






JohnD said:
OK Rick,

Not ideal, but it's "greener" that way too.

I do have "shut down monitor after 10 minutes" set, but when I come in it
is on and displaying the local login screen. But, if as you say, it's
"difficult to discern" why its failing I'll go with the power switch. I'd
guess that its a bug in Vista somewhere though (or perhaps in the video
drivers).

/john
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Hello Cap'n,

I tried that and it made no difference whatsoever. Thanks for the tip
though.

/john

Tiberius said:
Hello..

the problem existed in XP and now perhaps its still in Vista

Here is a registry edit that enables the power off for XP when in the
welcome screen mode
after someone logs in remotely. I have not tested it yet with vista.. but
you may want to try it
after you make a restore point of course:

copy the exact text into a notepad file and rename the file to have a .reg
extension,
then double click it to enter it into the registry....

As I said, I didn't have the chance to test it on vista yet.. so if you
try it please tell us if this resolved your problem.

Copy paste the below code:
-------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"PowerOffActive"="1"
"ScreenSaveActive"="1"
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="(None)"






JohnD said:
OK Rick,

Not ideal, but it's "greener" that way too.

I do have "shut down monitor after 10 minutes" set, but when I come in it
is on and displaying the local login screen. But, if as you say, it's
"difficult to discern" why its failing I'll go with the power switch. I'd
guess that its a bug in Vista somewhere though (or perhaps in the video
drivers).

/john
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