Improve Your Media Center PC’s Power Management with Away Mode - knottsscou1949

Over the years I've remained a mostly steadfast rooter of Windows Media Center, the tempered-in software that turns your PC into an awesome companion for your TV.

I say "largely" because of that whole you'll-deliver-to-make up-spear carrier-for-Media-Center-in-Windows-8 kerfuffle earlier this summer.

Still, my Windows 7-steam-powered HP mini-pillar remains wired to my rec-room Goggle bo, where it continues to serve beautifully as a DVR. That's because I've matched information technology with a CableCard radio. (Not familiar with them? Check out the tuner roundup I wrote last year.)

Peerless orbit that's always been a mystery, however, is king direction. I don't corresponding letting my media center go to sleep because it (or the USB-on tuner) sometimes fails to waken right, meaning my shows get into't get recorded. And I wear't like leaving it running 24/7 because that wastes a lot of might.

Turns out Windows has a major power setting that falls somewhere in between: Away Manner. It kit and boodle similarly to sleep modal value, but keeps some background tasks (like recording and streaming) hyperactive so they can continue to run.

I'll admit I'd never detected of this before today. But I'm excited to test it out, as it sounds like the perfect solution. Here's how to set information technology up, as described in a Facebook post from the Ceton Potbelly (makers of the InfiniTV 4 USB tuner):

From the Start menu, click Control Panel, Arrangement and Maintenance, Power Options.
Select Change Contrive Settings for the force plan you use.
Superior Vary Advanced Power Settings.
Scroll to the Multimedia settings option and boom it.
Inflate When Sharing Media.
Select allow the computer to enter Off Mode.
Scroll to the Sleep option and expand it.
Expand Sleep after and set to 0 minutes. Note: you may see "Plugged in" and "On battery" in this section, so choose the former.
Pick out Allow interbred sleep and set to Off.
Superior Hibernate after and set to 0 minutes. Over again, choose only "Plugged in."
Press OK and reboot your PC.

Aside the way, this is relevant merely to systems running Windows 7.

Also, this fashion is useful for allowing an otherwise idle PC to share media with remote devices — like, say, an Xbox. Discriminating stuff.

I'll report back if I encounter any issues with this; here's hoping you'll do the equivalent. Merely if my hassle-aweigh PC senses are correct, this should afford a perfect middle ground between sleep fashion and full-steamer functionality.

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