Disable Standby Mode..?

[spinjector]

Is it possible to remove "Standby" from the Shutdown options?

I tired Googleing for an answer, but could not find anything useful in the mountains of search results.

Thanks.

[fdv]

Yes, I don't have time to type it out, but in My Computer hardware properties, you will see an ACPI BIOS.

Change it to non-ACPI.

I'm sorry, I have posted the longer answer here in this forum a while back; I don't have the time tonight to dig it up (I normally don't mind)

[Guest kamrenroder]

I also would like to remove the standby option. (The reason why is irrelevant)

I read somewhere that if you remove the Advanced Power Management from the Device Manager,

System Devices that Standby will not show up. However, on our new systems we don't

have APM, we have ACPI.and as fdv suggested,I removed that, and all hell broke loose. It's a good thing

I had a backup image.

Does anyone know how to remove the Standby option from a system with ACPI, without

removing ACPI?

Thanks, in advance, for not asking "why?".

[fdv]

Found it

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903

Step #4, then substep #7, second to last para.

You are of course going from ACPI to non, though it's written non to ACPI.

You must -update- drivers not remove them.

When I did this on my laptop (got sick of it shutting down ALL the time) I had to re-install the drivers for all of my devices, including built-in Windows drivers for such things as monitor and hard drives... just so you know. Took me 15 minutes to get up and running again.