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What does powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0 do?
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Wehri, Joshua
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I'm suppose to use the command powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0 in PowerShell and document what changed. I believe it makes a change in the Power Options menu. I also checked the Advanced Power Settings. Kind of lost. Any info is much appreciated!
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Wehri, Joshua 56 Reputation points
2021-02-08T21:01:36.617+00:00 lol. yeah! guess i can't figure those out too.
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Wehri, Joshua 56 Reputation points
2021-02-08T22:27:15.883+00:00 i sent him an email. see if he can give me a hint. Thanks though. The website you gave my instructor gave to us too. Just not very descriptive of where to see where that is changing. Im in the power options trying to see what changes. Thanks!
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Rich Matheisen 48,116 Reputation points
2021-02-08T22:50:18.907+00:00 [Mod Removed]
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If you really want to impress your instructor tell them you'd prefer to use a GPO to accomplish this task.
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George Pineda 0 Reputation points2024-08-21T18:20:51.7866667+00:00 the docs linked are not helpful, not sure if you read what you linked. They say value "Specifies the new value, in minutes". So what does this mean if its 0? Will it timeout immediately or will it be limitless?
This SO has an answer and links to better docs.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36263756/how-to-set-monitor-timeout-to-never-using-powershell
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Rich Matheisen 48,116 Reputation points
2024-08-21T20:10:24.5966667+00:00 Changing that value to zero disables the sleep timeout. Finding the answer took about 15 seconds.
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