How can I awake from System Idle Process?

[Guest]

Unless I reboot, I cannot regain the use of my computer once it falls into the system idle process. I've looked but cannot seem to find how to wake my system from this state. The Windows Task Manager "End Process" button does not end this particular process. I've looked in the control panel's "System" folder for answers to this and in the "Power Options" folder but I have not been able to understand which preferences to select to correct this.

Are there settings somewhere that will change this annoyance?

 

[Ron Martell]

Unless I reboot, I cannot regain the use of my computer once it falls into the system idle process. I've looked but cannot seem to find how to wake my system from this state. The Windows Task Manager "End Process" button does not end this particular process. I've looked in the control panel's "System" folder for answers to this and in the "Power Options" folder but I have not been able to understand which preferences to select to correct this.

Are there settings somewhere that will change this annoyance?

System Idle Process is merely a counter to report the percentage of
the time that the system is sitting idle with nothing to do.

There is no process to end and no reason to even want to. As soon as
the computer finds something to do it will do it, and the value of the
System Idle Process will change accordingly.

What sort of a problem are you experiencing that you attribute to this
"System Idle Process"?


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Crusty \Old B@stard\]

You are funny!

If you want to end the "system idle process", give the computer something to
do. Render some video. Rip some CD's. Do anything intensive. Then the system
will not be "idle" any longer!

Hope you now understand what IDLE means!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

System Idle Process is exactly what it sounds like.
It is the % of processing power you have waiting for something to do,
doing nothing.

If you are having problems, this is not the cause.
Follow this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/

Unless I reboot, I cannot regain the use of my computer once it

falls into the system idle process. I've looked but cannot seem to
find how to wake my system from this state. The Windows Task Manager
"End Process" button does not end this particular process. I've looked
in the control panel's "System" folder for answers to this and in the
"Power Options" folder but I have not been able to understand which
preferences to select to correct this.

 

[Guest]

Well, by the sound of it I guess I must be diagnosing the problem incorrectly.

I cannot get online. I have DSL which is always on I'm told, but I cannot connect to any online sites after my computer sits idle for a time unless I reboot. The same thing happens to my printer and scanner after they sit idle. I have a new Epson R300 printer and an Epson Perfection 1650 scanner that are connected to my computer via a USB2 card.

When I reboot these items will function but if, while I'm in the process of using them, they sit idle for too long I am unable to access them. They cease to function.

 

[Mike]

The 'system idle process' cuts in when the computer is doing nothing, nada,
diddly squat.. then when you start a program like MS Word, memory is
allocated to the task and system idle gets nothing.. having opened Word,
unless you type something, memory will again be allocated to 'system idle'..

Do you mean that your computer will not come out of 'hibernate' or
'standby'?..

Unless I reboot, I cannot regain the use of my computer once it falls into

the system idle process. I've looked but cannot seem to find how to wake my
system from this state. The Windows Task Manager "End Process" button does
not end this particular process. I've looked in the control panel's "System"
folder for answers to this and in the "Power Options" folder but I have not
been able to understand which preferences to select to correct this.

 

[Guest]

Crusty,

The issue is that when I attempt to gain online access or use my printer or scanner they no longer respond unless I first reboot the entire system. I don't believe that having to reboot my system each time it falls idle is normal. What should happen is that the computer should awaken from it's state of nonresponsiveness and respond properly, allowing me to connect to the internet or use my printer or scanner whenever I need access to them but that's not what has been happening. I was hoping to find answers about how to setup the proper preferences to keep this idle lockout mode from happening.

Have you got any clues?

Thanks for your response, Nobro

Hey are you the same Crusty who hangs out at the MUdcat Cafe?

 

[Guest]

I've tried to turn of any hibernation or standby functions in an attempt to aleviate this problem to no avail.

 

[Crusty \Old B@stard\]

Is your DSL modem connected via a USB cable? If it is, there may be a
setting that is turning off the port to save power. You can remove the check
from the box to have the port always powered.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Ron Martell]

Well, by the sound of it I guess I must be diagnosing the problem incorrectly.

I cannot get online. I have DSL which is always on I'm told, but I cannot connect to any online sites after my computer sits idle for a time unless I reboot. The same thing happens to my printer and scanner after they sit idle. I have a new Epson R300 printer and an Epson Perfection 1650 scanner that are connected to my computer via a USB2 card.

When I reboot these items will function but if, while I'm in the process of using them, they sit idle for too long I am unable to access them. They cease to function.

Do you have a screensaver running?

Have you checked your computer for spyware recently?
Do a quick online checkup at MVP Jim Eshelman's site at
http://aumha.org/a/noads.htm and if you have anything then follow
Jim's Quick Fix procedure at http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm.

How about your antivirus software? Is it completely up to date, with
the virus definitions not more than a week old? Have you done a
complete virus scan within the past week? Get a "second opinion" on
your system with the free online virus scan at
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

Do you have a firewall in place? If you have a home cable/dsl router
to share the DSL connection with other computers then it almost
certainly has a NAT firewall built in which is good enough. If not
then you need to at least activate the software firewall in Windows
XP. Open Control Panel - Network connections. Right-click on the
icon for your Internet connection and select Properties. Go to the
Advanced tab and make sure the checkbox for the firewall is selected.
Click on OK and Apply as needed to exit.

Hope this is of some assistance.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Alex Nichol]

Unless I reboot, I cannot regain the use of my computer once it falls into the system idle process. I've looked but cannot seem to find how to wake my system from this state. The Windows Task Manager "End Process" button does not end this particular process. I've looked in the control panel's "System" folder for answers to this and in the "Power Options" folder but I have not been able to understand which preferences to select to correct this.

The System Idle Process is the little loop the system runs, twiddling
its thumbs, when there is nothing whatever to do and it is waiting for
something to be needed. As soon as something does arise - eg an
Interrupt for an I/O operation, or your moving the mouse, System Idle is
paused while the task is done, then resumed if there is nothing to do

So if the system is locking up, it is happening in something else, and
the system is sitting there running the Idle process waiting for some
termination that will never happen