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From: Herbert Eppel on 28 Feb 2010 22:12
I set my wife's PC (XP SP3) to hibernate after 1 hour, but it doesn't do it.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

From: Jose on 1 Mar 2010 08:09
On Feb 28, 10:12 pm, Herbert Eppel <HE(a)UK> wrote:
> I set my wife's PC (XP SP3) to hibernate after 1 hour, but it doesn't do it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Herbert Eppelwww.HETranslation.co.uk

Test the mechanism by hibernating manually.

Click Start, Turn Off Computer and you can see the various options -
one of which is Stand By.

When you press the Shift key, the Stand By button should turn into a
Hibernate button Hibernate is clicked, the system should hibernate.

What are your results?
From: "db" databaseben at hotmail dot on 1 Mar 2010 17:08
hibernation requires that
the computer be idle for
a period of time.

it could be that your pc
is actually busy and not
idling.

what you might try is to
see if forcing hibernation
will do the trick.

try making a shortcut on
the desktop with the following
line in the file name:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState s3

then click on that shortcut
and see if it will send your
pc into hibernation.

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"Herbert Eppel" <HE(a)UK> wrote in message news:uqKD6zOuKHA.4492(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> I set my wife's PC (XP SP3) to hibernate after 1 hour, but it doesn't do it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Herbert Eppel
> www.HETranslation.co.uk
>
From: Jerry Martin on 1 Mar 2010 18:46

"db" <databaseben at hotmail dot com> wrote in message
news:919C98FF-8C3B-4D86-8DF1-CB666BD1B51B(a)microsoft.com...
> hibernation requires that
> the computer be idle for
> a period of time.
>
> it could be that your pc
> is actually busy and not
> idling.
>

Hello:

I have a similar case where the Win XP PC usually does not go hibernation
(or stand-by when I have tried that), even though I have set it in Power
Option section of the Control Panel that hibernation is enabled. The PC will
go into hibernation (or stand-by) if I manually select that. Does that imply
that there is a background process going on that prevents the hibernation
feature to recognize that the PC is idle?

Thanks,
Jerry



From: Jose on 1 Mar 2010 19:36
On Mar 1, 6:46 pm, "Jerry Martin" <a...(a)zoominternet.net> wrote:
> "db" <databaseben at hotmail dot com> wrote in messagenews:919C98FF-8C3B-4D86-8DF1-CB666BD1B51B(a)microsoft.com...
>
> > hibernation requires that
> > the computer be idle for
> > a period of time.
>
> > it could be that your pc
> > is actually busy and not
> > idling.
>
> Hello:
>
> I have a similar case where the Win XP PC usually does not go hibernation
> (or stand-by when I have tried that), even though I have set it in Power
> Option section of the Control Panel that hibernation is enabled. The PC will
> go into hibernation (or stand-by) if I manually select that. Does that imply
> that there is a background process going on that prevents the hibernation
> feature to recognize that the PC is idle?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry

I don't know of any issue with hibernate or Stand By SP3.

What folks don't know about (sometimes) is If any process uses more
than 10% of the CPU at any time the idle timer gets reset to zero and
starts over.

I usually just 'splain that the system must be idle for the specified
amount of time and idle means no keyboard, mouse, surfing, disk
scanning, virus scanning, etc, defragging, etc. sometimes no
streaming music, video, games, etc.

Idle means idle and it is easy to reset the idle timer accidentally or
without you knowing it got reset.

Things could reset the timer at T-minus one minute to hibernate even
if you think you are not doing anything. That could be a scheduled
task, System Restore decides it is time to create a checkpoint,
Outlook sending/receiving email, somebody IMs you, an RSS feed,
background applications checking for automatic updates (Skype is one I
see a lot). You need to set your hibernate to work outside those
influences you set up yourself or change things. It just takes one
thing to reset that idle timer!

If you think you should be hibernating and are not, set your time to 1
minute for easy testing, close all applications and make sure the
hibernation and Stand By mechanism itself is sound by shutting down
anything that might even MAYBE reset the timer. Bring up the XP
system time clock so you can watch the seconds tick by and keep your
hands off for one minute. Make sure it works under the best
conditions, fix it if it is broken, then troubleshoot your other issue
that is probably the timer being reset.

I like to set my timer to 30 minutes, then I can run a malware scan
for an hour or so and when I come back later, I expect my computer to
be off and see the scan results screen when I power up. Usually it
is. Sometimes it is not - even though my scan is complete. My screen
saver engages, but she ain't hibernating.

It is always my fault when it doesn't hibernate like I want. Always,
always, always!
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