system standby

I set my power settings to system standby after 10 minutes which works fine, after ten minutes system will "sleep ".

however... i have scheduled tasks like backups and scans that wake the PC and run early morning. after they complete system will *not go back to standby mode after 10 minutes.

I am guessing it is using a different profile and settings when the PC wakes itself but I have no idea which profile and how to change the "default" power options.

 

It sounds like one of the programs is not releasing it's "active" state. Are there any question boxes there when you come back eg., "Do you wish to scan the next drive? ". Take one of the programs out of the list of tasks at a time and see if you can identify which one is remaining active.

From my experience Standby is for mobile computers to save batteries, it is not for desktop computers. Use monitor and disk drive power options instead.

Matt

 

only 1 program is scheduled, a disk backup program. it waked the PC up and copies files from documentsandsettings partition to a backup partition.

it finished with no pending operations, once finished the app just displays a summary screen.

monitor and disk power options are nice but standby is ultimately better for saving electricity. with wake on lan there's no need to leave it running as I run no server applications on it except remote dekstop but I wake the PC remotely.

 

is there a way to get rid of the 'Summary Screen' ?

 

perhaps...

u think that's preventing standby?

because i can have many many apps open and the system will still go to sleep after x minutes of inactivity.

i can run the bckup app manually and after completing, it does go to sleep (with summary screen displayed on wake up)

...which leads me to believe that this is an issue with the windows scheduler using the wrong profile when it wakes itself up. - (and thus using the wrong power settings)