If you have a media center (or any other) PC which utilizes a remote control or some other USB powered device, you may find that when you resume from standby the device needs to be “reset”. Having this annoyance is probably enough to set your computer to never go into standby. Instead of jumping to this ‘drastic’ measure, check out Slick Solutions’ MCE Standby Tool.
If any of these problems below (from their web site) sound familiar to you, MCE Standby may be the answer:
- Not properly going into and out of standby.
- Unable to use the right sleep state (fans keep running).
- Not going back to standby after a scheduled recording or guide update.
- Not (reliably) waking for a scheduled recording.
- Unable to wake from S3 standby using remote.
- Unable to put the system standby by remote.
- Hardware drivers preventing entering standby.
- Black screen of death on resume from standby.
- Blank screen requiring a button press on resume from standby.
- Problematic USB devices at resume.
The MCE Standby tool offers lots of configuration options and each one is both documented and screenshot’ed on their web site. Give this program a try if standby mode has frustrated you in the past and maybe it help.
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I personally don’t have a remote-controlled PC, but I’d like to point out a small typo:
‘Give this program a try if standby mode has frustrated you in the past and maybe it help.’
Maybe IT help. Shouldn’t it be ‘Maybe it will help’ or ‘Maybe it’ll help’? Something like that, I’m sure.