Disabling Away mode

I have asked this question in other forums (Microsoft and elsewhere) but no
one seems to know the answer.
When attempting to set up Media Centre extenders, I inadvertantly enabled
"Away Mode" without understanding what it was. Now I want to disable Away
Mode as I don't need it and don't want it. Enabling was a simple tickbox,
but I cannot find how to disable it. I have been researching this for a
month now, to no avail.
I found a technical paper (Word document) on the Microsoft website but it
went way over my head.
I'm sure there must be others who have enabled this by mistake and now want
to disable it, so I cannot understand why no one seems able to tell me how to
do it.

Why can't you clear the checkbox?

Tyro

"Foxycat" <> wrote in message
news:2CD2F7CD-8FF9-47F5-9E64-...
> I have asked this question in other forums (Microsoft and elsewhere) but
> no
> one seems to know the answer.
> When attempting to set up Media Centre extenders, I inadvertantly enabled
> "Away Mode" without understanding what it was. Now I want to disable Away
> Mode as I don't need it and don't want it. Enabling was a simple tickbox,
> but I cannot find how to disable it. I have been researching this for a
> month now, to no avail.
> I found a technical paper (Word document) on the Microsoft website but it
> went way over my head.
> I'm sure there must be others who have enabled this by mistake and now
> want
> to disable it, so I cannot understand why no one seems able to tell me how
> to
> do it.

Because I can't get back to the screen that had the checkbox - it was a
set-up screen for something called media extenders, which we never got to
work.

"Tyro" wrote:

> Why can't you clear the checkbox?
>
> Tyro
>
> "Foxycat" <> wrote in message
> news:2CD2F7CD-8FF9-47F5-9E64-...
> > I have asked this question in other forums (Microsoft and elsewhere) but
> > no
> > one seems to know the answer.
> > When attempting to set up Media Centre extenders, I inadvertantly enabled
> > "Away Mode" without understanding what it was. Now I want to disable Away
> > Mode as I don't need it and don't want it. Enabling was a simple tickbox,
> > but I cannot find how to disable it. I have been researching this for a
> > month now, to no avail.
> > I found a technical paper (Word document) on the Microsoft website but it
> > went way over my head.
> > I'm sure there must be others who have enabled this by mistake and now
> > want
> > to disable it, so I cannot understand why no one seems able to tell me how
> > to
> > do it.
>
>

Because I can't get back to the screen that had the checkbox - it was a set
up screen for media extenders.

"Tyro" wrote:

> Why can't you clear the checkbox?
>
> Tyro
>
> "Foxycat" <> wrote in message
> news:2CD2F7CD-8FF9-47F5-9E64-...
> > I have asked this question in other forums (Microsoft and elsewhere) but
> > no
> > one seems to know the answer.
> > When attempting to set up Media Centre extenders, I inadvertantly enabled
> > "Away Mode" without understanding what it was. Now I want to disable Away
> > Mode as I don't need it and don't want it. Enabling was a simple tickbox,
> > but I cannot find how to disable it. I have been researching this for a
> > month now, to no avail.
> > I found a technical paper (Word document) on the Microsoft website but it
> > went way over my head.
> > I'm sure there must be others who have enabled this by mistake and now
> > want
> > to disable it, so I cannot understand why no one seems able to tell me how
> > to
> > do it.
>
>

Do or did you have a Media Center Extender attached to your LAN? An XBox 360
would show up as the same thing. I've never seen the MC Extender
configuration prompts show up without an extender device being attached and
running.

"Foxycat" <> wrote in message
news:423997E6-CD8C-4F32-A0C0-...
> Because I can't get back to the screen that had the checkbox - it was a
> set
> up screen for media extenders.
>
> "Tyro" wrote:
>
>> Why can't you clear the checkbox?
>>
>> Tyro
>>
>> "Foxycat" <> wrote in message
>> news:2CD2F7CD-8FF9-47F5-9E64-...
>> > I have asked this question in other forums (Microsoft and elsewhere)
>> > but
>> > no
>> > one seems to know the answer.
>> > When attempting to set up Media Centre extenders, I inadvertantly
>> > enabled
>> > "Away Mode" without understanding what it was. Now I want to disable
>> > Away
>> > Mode as I don't need it and don't want it. Enabling was a simple
>> > tickbox,
>> > but I cannot find how to disable it. I have been researching this for
>> > a
>> > month now, to no avail.
>> > I found a technical paper (Word document) on the Microsoft website but
>> > it
>> > went way over my head.
>> > I'm sure there must be others who have enabled this by mistake and now
>> > want
>> > to disable it, so I cannot understand why no one seems able to tell me
>> > how
>> > to
>> > do it.
>>
>>

go to control panel >> power option

click on "change plan settings" for the plan you are usin

click on "change advanced power settings

scroll to the bottom to "multimedia settings" and expand it

under "when sharing media" select "allow computer to sleep" instead o
away thing

you are don

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dluzh