Vista Does not really go to sleep on Mondays and Tuesdays!

[Guest]

My Vista machine is about two months old now. It looks as though on each
Monday my Vista Home Premium gets busy doing something and will just not go
into proper hibernation. I think it may be performing a scheduled task which
starts on Monday in idle time and stops when the system comes out of idle.
The task seems to last over two days. My system is an HP Pavilion a1730n so
it came with lots of stuff preinstalled, most of which I got rid of. There
are a load of scheduled tasks set up as Microsoft tasks and one of them
"crawls the start files".

Is there some way to discover which of these scheduled tasks is really
necessary so the un-needed ones may be deleted? Has anyone done a clean
install and found these scheduled tasks set up? Or are these a result of the
HP pre-load?

Thanks. George

 

[mikeyhsd]

check the log files, scheduled task log as well as the event logs to see what is going on.

also try the Performance and Information Center in Control Panel.



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My Vista machine is about two months old now. It looks as though on each
Monday my Vista Home Premium gets busy doing something and will just not go
into proper hibernation. I think it may be performing a scheduled task which
starts on Monday in idle time and stops when the system comes out of idle.
The task seems to last over two days. My system is an HP Pavilion a1730n so
it came with lots of stuff preinstalled, most of which I got rid of. There
are a load of scheduled tasks set up as Microsoft tasks and one of them
"crawls the start files".

Is there some way to discover which of these scheduled tasks is really
necessary so the un-needed ones may be deleted? Has anyone done a clean
install and found these scheduled tasks set up? Or are these a result of the
HP pre-load?

Thanks. George

 

[Guest]

Hi mikeyhsd:
The task seems to be a shell task called "Crawl start type Addresses" and it
seems to restart over and over again during any idle time. I do not know
what this is doing but I shall try to find out. It does cause ongoing disk
activity. Thanks

George

 

[mikeyhsd]

according to GOOGLE Crawl is a search engine of some type.
might check with google yourself to see what it shows.
probably installed it self when installing some other program. not unusual.



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Hi mikeyhsd:
The task seems to be a shell task called "Crawl start type Addresses" and it
seems to restart over and over again during any idle time. I do not know
what this is doing but I shall try to find out. It does cause ongoing disk
activity. Thanks

George

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My Vista machine is about two months old now. It looks as though on each
Monday my Vista Home Premium gets busy doing something and will just not go
into proper hibernation. I think it may be performing a scheduled task which
starts on Monday in idle time and stops when the system comes out of idle.
The task seems to last over two days. My system is an HP Pavilion a1730n so
it came with lots of stuff preinstalled, most of which I got rid of. There
are a load of scheduled tasks set up as Microsoft tasks and one of them
"crawls the start files".

Is there some way to discover which of these scheduled tasks is really
necessary so the un-needed ones may be deleted? Has anyone done a clean
install and found these scheduled tasks set up? Or are these a result of the
HP pre-load?

Thanks. George

Check to see when your automatic backups and defrags take place.
Change the schedules to something that you prefer.


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[Guest]

Hi Again mikeyhsd:

This scheduled event is actually a Microsoft Office related product. I
searched the MSDN center and found references to it there. I have disabled
this task, BUT!!!! the system still does not sleep. There is ongoing disk
activity. We have just been out for several hours and I used the keyboard to
initiate the hibernation. Screen darkened just like hibernation but disk
activity carried on. Still looking the sleep depriver.

George

 

[Guest]

Hi Bruce:

Defraging is scheduled for Sunday mornings at 10:00 am and goes off without
a hitch. There are no scheduled backups right now. We use two hard drives
(one IDE, one SATA) in each of two systems across a gigabit switch to keep
data up to date. System A copies data to the second (non-system) hard drive
in system A and system B, system B does the same for its data. Within a
short time
this will become a syncing operation within each system and a scheduled
backup type task across the LAN. No compression, no fancy packaging, just
pure data. Disk space is cheap, there's half a terabyte of hard drive in
each system.

I have disabled the scheduled task that starts the Crawl but there is still
something going on that keeps a hard drive active and limits hibernation.

Thanks for the suggestions, we're still looking for the sleep depriver.

George

 

[mikeyhsd]

check the logs again to see what was happening around that time.
scheduled tasks logs.
event logs.
performance information as well.



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Hi Again mikeyhsd:

This scheduled event is actually a Microsoft Office related product. I
searched the MSDN center and found references to it there. I have disabled
this task, BUT!!!! the system still does not sleep. There is ongoing disk
activity. We have just been out for several hours and I used the keyboard to
initiate the hibernation. Screen darkened just like hibernation but disk
activity carried on. Still looking the sleep depriver.

George