I had a customer located in Vaughan call me up to say that his computer keep going into standby mode.

When I called back, he had stepped out to lunch and so I needed a way to see what the power settings were on his computer and to make changes to them remotely.

First query the remote computer to see what the current power settings are:

psexec.exe \\computer_name powercfg /query

Note the name of the current power scheme.

Set the Standby option to 0 to disable.

psexec.exe \\computer_name powercfg /change "Home/Office Desk" /standby-timeout-ac 0

Email me if you are having any problems with this command.

Robert Miranda