Re: auto-sleep don't work no more Say Ken Blake
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:09
8 -0400, Shoe wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:41:57 -0400, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Ken Blake wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 201:52 -0400, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> housetrained wrote:
>>>>> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>> news:4C501424.6020708@invalid.invalid...
>>>>>> housetrained wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi, since installing squeezebox server the auto-sleep don't work no
>>>>>>> more. Uninstalled squeezetc. but still don't work. Ran CCleaner and
>>>>>>> Registry do-dah but still don't work. Any ideas apart from doin' a
>>>>>>> clean install of WIN7?
>>>>>>> TIA
>>>>>> Search in Win 7 "power" See Power Options Go there and set to what
>>>>>> you want in case that program changed the setting.
>>>>> already done that and tried loads of settings including all the defaults
>>>>> - no joy. But thanks anyway
>>>> Oh crud(
>>>>
>>>> Where is Ken Blake when you need him?
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't know anything about squeezebox server.
>>
>>Yabut OP says he uninstalled that thing. I was wondering if you could
>>help OP get power settings to work since he says he tried.
>>After a little thought I wonder if he has something that starts when he
>>starts his system.
>>
>>Lou
> I am also having some problems with sleep. Sometimes it works
> automatically, sometimes it doesn't and I have not been able to find
> anything running that correlates with that. Right now it's a mystery.
For no particular reason, you just reminded me of a period when I couldn't
get sleep to work automatically, and when sleep wasn't set, even the screen
saver would fail to happen.
I then noticed that if I set the timeout to less than 5 minutes, screen
saver or sleep would work, and eventually I began to suspect my wireless
mouse and keyboard. I plugged in my original wired items, and the problem
went away. I had already turned off the Wake on LAN and similar settings to
no avail.
Other KB/M brands were OK.
To summarize the above long story: some devices (in my case a wireless
mouse/keyboard combo) call home periodically, which would wake Windows up
or make it think the computer was in use.
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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)