System Standby from Keyboard

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I have a new Logitech Multi Media Keyboard. XP Home's Power Options is set
to have the system never go into standby. Yet whenever I accidentally press
the User key on the keyboard rather than the F Lock key, the system goes
into standby. Other than never making that mistake is there a way I can
prevent going into standby when I press the User key?

Thank you.
 
Jack Gillis said:
I have a new Logitech Multi Media Keyboard. XP Home's Power Options is set
to have the system never go into standby. Yet whenever I accidentally
press the User key on the keyboard rather than the F Lock key, the system
goes into standby. Other than never making that mistake is there a way I
can prevent going into standby when I press the User key?

Thank you.
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The standby setting in Power Options is for automatic standby
after a set time of no user activity. It does not prevent user
initiated standby. If the User key you refer to is the F12 key
next to the F Lock key, it is programmable. Check the settings
in Logitech Setpoint to see if it can be progammed to do nothing.
If not, you can set it to do something harmless, like opening the
calculator.
 
Jack Gillis wrote (in
I have a new Logitech Multi Media Keyboard. XP Home's Power Options is set
to have the system never go into standby. Yet whenever I accidentally press
the User key on the keyboard rather than the F Lock key, the system goes
into standby. Other than never making that mistake is there a way I can
prevent going into standby when I press the User key?
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That’s odd. The User key shouldn’t put your system into standby, it should bring
you out to the login screen (like pressing Win-L or Start->Switch Users).

I know what you mean though, I have on several occasions pressed the User key
instead of F-Lock by accident and it was annoying (but it only made me have to
enter my password to log back in and continue where I left off, it didn’t go
into standby).


As for fixing it, you probably have the Logitech software installed, so you
could turn it off by assigning no actions to it, or remap it to do something
else. If you don’t have the Logitech software installed, you are mostly out of
luck, although one option—that I just thought of and so have not tested, but
will now because it’s intrigued me—is to have a hotkey app register that key for
another action. (I’ll have to look into it.)
 
ID 10 T error.

I thought I had the Logitech software installed. I know I did at one time
but I must have removed it for some reason. Reinstalling it cured the
problem

Thank you very much.
 
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