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dvdfreak · 2008-06-24, 15:44

I had a similar problem on my laptop a few weeks ago, it just refused to go into standby when idle (64-bit Vista), while manual/forced standby worked just fine. Just when I was about to give up and throw the machine out the window I stumbled upon MCE Standby Tool (slicksolutions.eu/mst.shtml).

This fixed my problem: the machine very nicely goes into standby now as it should. I unchecked some of my USB devices and also used some of its Vista specific options, so not sure exactly what fixed it for me, but it works!

You can either fully install the tool or simply run it once to check your standby settings. The latter should be enough I think. Good luck!!

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dvdfreak Portal Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 596 Thanks: 0 Thanked 38 Times in 24 Posts Country: My System	I had a similar problem on my laptop a few weeks ago, it just refused to go into standby when idle (64-bit Vista), while manual/forced standby worked just fine. Just when I was about to give up and throw the machine out the window I stumbled upon MCE Standby Tool (slicksolutions.eu/mst.shtml). This fixed my problem: the machine very nicely goes into standby now as it should. I unchecked some of my USB devices and also used some of its Vista specific options, so not sure exactly what fixed it for me, but it works! You can either fully install the tool or simply run it once to check your standby settings. The latter should be enough I think. Good luck!! __________________ Check out For The Record, the advanced rule-based scheduling system to intelligently record your TV programs with TV Server and MediaPortal: streaming live TV, single-seat/multiseat, Web Access, IM chat-bot, full priority/conflict management, standby with wake-on-lan, comskip, transcoding, more...