"Standby" mystery in WinXP -- need help!

[fendel]

Someone please enlighten me before this drives me totally bonkers... What settings apart from "Power Options" determine whether your PC goes into standby mode?

At least I think it's standby mode: the screen where you have to click your user name to start using Windows.

My PC doesn't do this. I long ago fixed it so it doesn't, and can't remember how for the life of me. My partner's PC does go into standby, but he has something in Power Options that seems to be the determining factor.

His sister does not have standby set up in Power Options -- everything is "never" -- yet when I was trying to work on her PC through Remote Assistance, it kept logging her (and thus me) off every few minutes. It made Remote Assistance almost unusable. I need to find out how to change the timeout so it gives us at least twenty or thirty minutes to work before dropping into the "Click your user name" screen. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

still tearing my hair out; sorry so incoherent,
fendel

 

[NightCrawler]

Sounds like the Welcome screen, when the screen saver activates it will resume to the welcome screen if the option is set. Look under screen saver and uncheck it to turn it off.


To change the grace period you need tweakui and it's under logon and screen saver.

 

[fendel]

It's funny, though, my partner's computer goes to the welcome screen but he does not have a screensaver enabled at all.

But your mention of TweakUI rang a bell... I'm pretty sure I ran that on my PC early on and adjusted a few things, and maybe that's the difference between my partner's PC and mine. Guess I'll add that to my toolbox of stuff to bring to his sister's house sometime. One of these days I want to go up there--it's an hour's drive--and get things set up so that I can solve any future non-hardware problems from the comfort of my own house. (I hate long drives.)