Long standby causes Windows problems ?

[R Tin]

I read or heard this somewhere, that continued practice of leaving 'puter in
(XP-Home) standby for an hour or more would eventually and before long cause
probs in the OS. Is this so? What kind of problems?

TIA for your observations.

 

[Bob I]

Old wives tales it seems. Standby problems are caused by incorrect
drivers, or installing problematic software.

 

[R Tin]

Thanks, Bob I. Can you name a few driver types that may be causing the prob
of standby quitting, re-emerging into active mode after varying lengths of
time? This has gone on since the beginning, months ago. Sometimes it works,
mostly does not, seems unrelated to possible software incompatibility.
RF


| Old wives tales it seems. Standby problems are caused by incorrect
| drivers, or installing problematic software.
|
| R Tin wrote:
| > I read or heard this somewhere, that continued practice of leaving
'puter in
| > (XP-Home) standby for an hour or more would eventually and before long
cause
| > probs in the OS. Is this so? What kind of problems?
| >
| > TIA for your observations.
| >
|

 

[Bob I]

Your original query isn't remotely similar to the current question. What
you are describing is a normal response. Something is simply waking up
the PC. Scheduled Tasks can do that. Software can be scheduled to update
itself. Bumping the mouse or banging the table the mouse is on will do
it. Wireless mice can pick up signals and wake it up. LAN/network
traffic can wake it up. You will just need to determine what the PC is
waking up for.