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Disable PC Standby

If a scoring PC goes into Standby and/or Hibermate during a game, operational difficulties will be experienced – necessitating a computer reboot in order to resume normal operation.  It is, therefore, strongly recommended that Standby and Hibernate be disabled.

Instructions for completely disabling Standby and Hibernate are described in these documents.


Windows XP:   Disabling Sleep and Hibernate functions on Windows XP computers

Windows 7/8/10/11:   Disabling Standby on Vista and Windows 7 - 8 - 10  - 11 computers


Updated: December 23, 2022