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From: William B. Lurie on 12 Feb 2010 06:10 You nice folks led me to Event Viewer not too long ago, and in studying it, I find under Applications that Automatic Live Update is being run every 3 hours. It isn't my Norton Anti- Virus Live Update, and I do not allow Windows Live Update to run. Or at least I think I have it set so that I run Windows Update when I choose to do so. How can I track down what is running so often, and preventing my system from hibernating as a result? Thank you.
From: Smiles on 12 Feb 2010 08:53 can you give me the link to the viewer I need one thanks William B. Lurie wrote: > You nice folks led me to Event Viewer not too long ago, and > in studying it, I find under Applications that Automatic Live > Update is being run every 3 hours. It isn't my Norton Anti- > Virus Live Update, and I do not allow Windows Live Update to > run. Or at least I think I have it set so that I run Windows > Update when I choose to do so. > > How can I track down what is running so often, and preventing > my system from hibernating as a result? > > Thank you.
From: William B. Lurie on 12 Feb 2010 09:25 On my machine, it is Start>>Control Panel>>Administartive Tools>>Event Viewer>>Applications. Smiles wrote: > can you give me the link to the viewer I need one > > thanks > > William B. Lurie wrote: >> You nice folks led me to Event Viewer not too long ago, and >> in studying it, I find under Applications that Automatic Live >> Update is being run every 3 hours. It isn't my Norton Anti- >> Virus Live Update, and I do not allow Windows Live Update to >> run. Or at least I think I have it set so that I run Windows >> Update when I choose to do so. >> >> How can I track down what is running so often, and preventing >> my system from hibernating as a result? >> >> Thank you.
From: Gerry on 12 Feb 2010 09:51 You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Smiles" <smile_inspector(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OLImLr%23qKHA.4636(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > can you give me the link to the viewer I need one > > thanks > > William B. Lurie wrote: >> You nice folks led me to Event Viewer not too long ago, and >> in studying it, I find under Applications that Automatic Live >> Update is being run every 3 hours. It isn't my Norton Anti- >> Virus Live Update, and I do not allow Windows Live Update to >> run. Or at least I think I have it set so that I run Windows >> Update when I choose to do so. >> >> How can I track down what is running so often, and preventing >> my system from hibernating as a result? >> >> Thank you.
From: Jose on 12 Feb 2010 09:59
On Feb 12, 6:10 am, "William B. Lurie" <billu...(a)nospam.net> wrote: > You nice folks led me to Event Viewer not too long ago, and > in studying it, I find under Applications that Automatic Live > Update is being run every 3 hours. It isn't my Norton Anti- > Virus Live Update, and I do not allow Windows Live Update to > run. Or at least I think I have it set so that I run Windows > Update when I choose to do so. > > How can I track down what is running so often, and preventing > my system from hibernating as a result? > > Thank you. Provide more information: Minimize back and forth Q&A and eliminate guesswork and assumptions: Click Start, Run and in the box enter: msinfo32 Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste back here. There will be some personal information (like System Name and User Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete from the pasted information. What are your system settings regarding Hibernation? Mine is set to hibernate after 30 minutes of inactivity, but I can also hibernate anytime. Which does not work for you? Has hibernation ever worked? If you click Start, Turn Off Computer and press the Shift key, does the Stand By button turn into a Hibernate button and then if you click Hibernate does your system enter hibernation? Let's see this event you see: Look in the Event Viewer for clues around the time of the incident Here is a method to post the specific information about individual events. To see the Event Viewer logs, click Start, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer. A shortcut to Event Viewer is to click Start, Run and in the box enter: %SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc Click OK to launch the Event Viewer. The most interesting logs are usually the Application and System. Some logs may be almost or completely empty. Not every event is a problem, some are informational messages that things are working okay and some are warnings. No event should defy reasonable explanation. Each event is sorted by Date and Time. Errors will have red Xs, Warnings will have yellow !s. Information messages have white is. Not every Error or Warning event means there is a serious issue. Some are excusable at startup time when Windows is booting. Try to find just the events at the date and time around your problem. If you double click an event, it will open a Properties windows with more information. On the right are black up and down arrow buttons to scroll through the open events. The third button that looks like two pages on top of each other is used to copy the event details to your Windows clipboard. When you find an interesting event that occurred around the time of your issue, click the third button under the up and down arrows to copy the details and then you can paste the details (right click, Paste or CTRL-V) the detail text back here for analysis. To get a fresh start on any Event Viewer log, you can choose to clear the log (backing up the log is offered), then reproduce your issue, then look at just the events around the time of your issue. |