{"id":2131,"date":"2013-10-09T01:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T01:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atumvirt.com\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2013-10-09T01:43:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T01:43:43","slug":"disable-sleep-in-windows-7-startshutdown-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2013\/10\/disable-sleep-in-windows-7-startshutdown-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable “Sleep” in Windows 7 Start\/Shutdown Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDWORD: ACSettingIndex
\nValue: 0 (disabled)<\/p>\n
This change was necessitated when I found a number of virtual desktop brokers were losing connectivity with the Delivery Controller. Upon investigating the ESXi console, I noticed only a black screen, but the VM was marked as “powered on”. The “tasks and events” tab revealed the dirty secret: The VM entered sleep mode.<\/p>\n