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The following steps will assist you in turning off the auto-standby and/or auto-hibernate on your Windows XP.
and Double Click. If you are In Category View, click the Performance And Maintenance and then click on Power Options.
John, it sounds like the issue is your screen saver not the hibernate mode.
I’ll be making a post tonight showing how to disable screen saver.
It is mot working….. it use to be standby in 10 min… i wanna get red off this fucking thing….help me..
To anonymous.. I echo your sentiments exactly! Very well put.. was hoping though to find an answer, as it has been driving me crazy that I set every setting I can find to NO STANDBY… ALWAYS ON… etc… but no matter what I do… some way or other, it winds up in standby…
Someone.. PLEASE… how to disable the whole standby function at the root or base of it.. if at all possible… any info would be extremely helpful and very much appreciated…
tia…
mya
you guys are all dumb asses..it works
to JD:
look who’s talking 
The headline is about turning off standby&hib. The tip given is for turning off auto-standby&hib, not turning off standby&hib, which the guys/gals nicely pointed out. What about that is beyond your understanding? What was that fitting word that you used?
PH
When computer runs it automatically goes to standby mode though I have done hibernate option to Never in power Option as stated above. What will be done to inactivate automatically standby mode.
Desk top Computer with xp goes quickly to screen saver and then to my pictures.
I can seem to stop it sleeping hibernating going to standby even when i put all the power settings to never. It does not seem to act on these settings.
what can i do?