For those looking to disable Connected Standby on Clovertrail (and similar) Devices:

A simple change of a registry key and a system restart exposes all the legacy functionality:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\CsEnabled (1->0)

I can set a monitor sleep timeout and the monitor actually turns off without sleeping the whole device!
I can run "nircmd monitor off" and it actually turns off the monitor upon request without tripping a standby mode.
I get the good ol' power plan switcher when I click the battery icon in taskbar.
I get tons of previously hidden options inside each power plan's advanced settings.

* I had previously tried disabling Desktop Activity Moderator (dam.sys) and this kept my desktop processes from freezing upon monitor-off in Connected Standby mode, but they were still cut off from system devices like sound and network. Since my efforts were to enable downloading to continue with the screen off, this was still unacceptable.

* Power Usage and Battery Life: With Connected Standby disabled, and monitor off, my idle battery drain was ~0.9w (Acer Iconia W510 tablet, WiFi connected, Bluetooth enabled but not connected.) This translates to roughly 30hrs of battery life in this state, before complete depletion. I have my unit set to shut down when battery becomes critical, so we still have a mechanism in place there.



* This post was originally about saving MORE power which is not quite what I'm doing here, but the device can still be shut down/powered on quickly and easily, and enabling hibernate in the same registry location as above allows for that functionality as well. I don't use it because I don't want to sacrifice the hard drive space for the hibernate file, but I did have it working at one point.

Credit to
AngieAndretti