STANDBY/TURN OFF HD WON'T ACTIVATE

I

Irv Gleaner

Power Management is set to turn off monitor in 15 minutes,
turn off HD in 25 minutes, and go to standby in 30
minutes. However, only the monitor turns off. How do I
get the program to turn off the HD and go into standby? I
suspect some other program may be running in the
background, but how can I detect which one?
 
L

Lemon Jelly

Thorsten Matzner - typed:
See "How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560) and "How to Perform a
Clean Boot in Windows XP" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310353).
Click to expand...

Another tool which may help is bootvis (from MS) which graphically shows
what gets loaded during boot, standby or hibernate. This site may also
help along with TM's suggestion:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_standby.htm
I would advise disabling h/d power down. Your disc(s) will turn off 5
mins before Standby mode & may well wake up just again just to go into
Standby & cause delays at other times.
 

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