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After I remote into my desktop machine the monitor will not sleep again until I use the desktop locally. This started several months ago. Hard to say what changed since I don't think I immediately noticed a problem.
When I first remote in the monitor will immediately wake up and display the "remote logged in from blah blah" and will go black after the configured sleep time, but is still powered on.
This is on an nvidia card and Vista SP1, though it started pre-SP1 and I've gone through a few video driver updates by now.
I've noticed this too, and I'm using an ATI card, so it's not the video drivers fault. Another things that happens is that maximized windows are displayed behind the task bar, and I have to restart explorer.exe to get maximized windows to "dock" with the taskbar again. – Anders Öhrt – 2009-07-25T07:53:39.550
An update... I bought a new primary monitor, making the "problem" monitor a second monitor, and the problem went away. Both monitors remain asleep during and after remote desktop sessions. – brian – 2009-08-12T01:05:14.787
Why don't you just turn the monitor off when you leave the computer? – Stefan Thyberg – 2009-07-19T16:08:10.977
Yes, that's my current solution. Additionally, I'd like the hardware to behave correctly. :) – brian – 2009-07-20T02:20:42.567
2Please add an answer to your own question with the info from your last comment, and accept it, so the question does not come up as unanswered. – Joshua Nurczyk – 2010-01-04T20:34:30.890