gharris999;492858 Wrote: 
> Would you be willing to try the ReallyPreventStandby plugin?  I made
> some modifications to PreventStandby about a year ago seeking to solve
> the same problem that you're describing here.  Eventually, those
> changes, after some modifications by Michael H, made it into the 7.4
> release.  Give ReallyPreventStandby a try and see if it works:
> http://srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com/files/ReallyPreventStandby.zip
> 
> PreventStandby & ReallyPreventStandby both try to keep a system awake
> by using the Windows kernel SetThreadExecutionState API.  It's possible,
> I suppose, that the MCE Standby Tool somehow causes the system to ignore
> calls to SetThreadExecutionState.
> 
> I'm going to try to do some more testing on my Windows 7 machine over
> the next couple of days and I'll report back what I observe.

I finally had a chance to try the ReallyPreventStandby plugin but still
no joy.  Three or four minutes after waking the Win7 server, it goes
back to sleep during playback.  I will disable the MCE Standby Tool and
try it again to see if that has any effect.


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