Re: 2-hour hibernate failure
Posted: 13 Apr 2010, 18:45
No, I have XP/Home Edition/SP2 .....
And, to my knowledge, I installed no
Workgroup Engine.
Unknown wrote:
> Your XP is Professional? Did you install Windows Workgroup Engine?
> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:OH8lwry2KHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Yes, and maybe John can devise a way to tell us why
>> it is being reset.
>>
>> Unknown wrote:
>>> Not all 'events' are recorded but the hibernate time out clock is being
>>> reset..
>>> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
>>> news:uxoL1Ey2KHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> John John - MVP wrote:
>>>>> Well, forgive me but I surely have to wonder what it is that is going
>>>>> on at your end...
>>>>>
>>>>> The last batch file that I asked you to run would have changed some of
>>>>> the start values of some of the services but I note some
>>>>> inconsistencies:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ati HotKey Poller set to Manual now it' Disabled. Not that it matters
>>>>> but who disabled this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Browser set to Manual now it's back on Auto. Who set this back to
>>>>> Auto? You told me that you have a stand alone desktop and that
>>>>> definitely you are not on a network. The Browser service maintains the
>>>>> browse list, a list of of all available servers on domains or a list of
>>>>> available computers on workgroups. The Browser service does broadcast
>>>>> announcements over the network at specific time intervals (like every
>>>>> 12 minutes, until the Master Browser tells it to shut up) and plays a
>>>>> role in the assignment of browser tasks to specific computers on the
>>>>> network. You have no network... why is the Browser service on Auto?
>>>>> Maybe someone wants this thing barking every 12 minutes....
>>>>>
>>>>> lanmanserver set to Disabled now it's Manual. No network, no file and
>>>>> printer sharing so as far as I'm concerned this should be set to
>>>>> disabled, Manual might also be fine but the point is, who changed it
>>>>> from Disabled to Manual?
>>>>>
>>>>> LexBceS still set to Auto. This is part of your Lexmark printer
>>>>> software, if the printer and all its software was removed I have to
>>>>> wonder why is this service still present...
>>>>>
>>>>> psqlWGE set to Manual now it's bact to Auto. What is this thing? What
>>>>> software are you running that needs this thing to be set to Auto? A
>>>>> quick search had revealed that it might belong to an accounting
>>>>> package, I can't say for sure but anything with "sql" in it usually
>>>>> suggests that it is part of some kind of database. And I have to
>>>>> wonder if this database is in anyway associated to the Indexing service
>>>>> that seemed to be doing cataloging work at any or all hours of the day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Viewpoint Manager Service was set to Auto, now it's Disabled.
>>>>> Information on this is a bit scant or vague but it seems that it might
>>>>> be junk installed by AOL and that it might be needed for some AOL
>>>>> features... or that it might be unwanted junk related to adware.
>>>>> Without knowing if you are on AOL I had decided to leave it on Auto for
>>>>> the time being. But as far as I'm concerned if you can live without it
>>>>> maybe you should have it disabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> W32Time set to Manual now back to Auto. You said in earlier posts that
>>>>> the Time service was improperly configured and that it couldn't
>>>>> synchronize with a time server, so all it's doing is trying (and
>>>>> failing) to contact a time server, network traffic for naught and for
>>>>> that specific reason I wanted to remove this from the picture, but I
>>>>> see that it is back... like the cat with nine lives...
>>>>>
>>>>> WZCSVC was set to Manual now it's back to Auto. This is is the service
>>>>> that automatically configures 802.11 wireless network devices. Are you
>>>>> on a wireless network? You said that you are a standalone machine that
>>>>> is not part of a network and that you plug to the internet with a
>>>>> telephone cable (I assume DSL, not dial-up, right?). Is your printer
>>>>> running on wireless? Is the webcam a wireless device? Do you have a
>>>>> wireless router? If you do have a wireless router, why are its
>>>>> wireless functions running if you use a telephone cable to plug to the
>>>>> internet? Why is this service back to Auto? For all I know maybe you
>>>>> have 'unwanted guests' accessing your wireless router...
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe you inadvertently changed some of these settings while you were
>>>>> 'playing' with CodeStuff Starter. I'm still quite busy with other
>>>>> commitments, I will try to be back later with a new batch file for you
>>>>> to run, we'll give it another try.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>> Well,John, the only approach I can see that makes sense, is for you
>>>> to give me a script file that will set all my services to what you
>>>> want, and then I'll run ServiceStat.vbc and autoruns.exe and
>>>> establish a baseline, and then I'll simply let it sit for 2 hours
>>>> and run autoruns.exe again and report autostart.txt and we can see
>>>> what was changed when I do nothing in between. Meanwhile, I'm
>>>> waiting for your advice.
>>>>
>>>> I can't understand how the Events Log shows absolutely nothing
>>>> happening in the two-hour period, so no reason for it not to
>>>> obey the hibernate command......yet it jest doesn't do it.
>
And, to my knowledge, I installed no
Workgroup Engine.
Unknown wrote:
> Your XP is Professional? Did you install Windows Workgroup Engine?
> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:OH8lwry2KHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Yes, and maybe John can devise a way to tell us why
>> it is being reset.
>>
>> Unknown wrote:
>>> Not all 'events' are recorded but the hibernate time out clock is being
>>> reset..
>>> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
>>> news:uxoL1Ey2KHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> John John - MVP wrote:
>>>>> Well, forgive me but I surely have to wonder what it is that is going
>>>>> on at your end...
>>>>>
>>>>> The last batch file that I asked you to run would have changed some of
>>>>> the start values of some of the services but I note some
>>>>> inconsistencies:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ati HotKey Poller set to Manual now it' Disabled. Not that it matters
>>>>> but who disabled this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Browser set to Manual now it's back on Auto. Who set this back to
>>>>> Auto? You told me that you have a stand alone desktop and that
>>>>> definitely you are not on a network. The Browser service maintains the
>>>>> browse list, a list of of all available servers on domains or a list of
>>>>> available computers on workgroups. The Browser service does broadcast
>>>>> announcements over the network at specific time intervals (like every
>>>>> 12 minutes, until the Master Browser tells it to shut up) and plays a
>>>>> role in the assignment of browser tasks to specific computers on the
>>>>> network. You have no network... why is the Browser service on Auto?
>>>>> Maybe someone wants this thing barking every 12 minutes....
>>>>>
>>>>> lanmanserver set to Disabled now it's Manual. No network, no file and
>>>>> printer sharing so as far as I'm concerned this should be set to
>>>>> disabled, Manual might also be fine but the point is, who changed it
>>>>> from Disabled to Manual?
>>>>>
>>>>> LexBceS still set to Auto. This is part of your Lexmark printer
>>>>> software, if the printer and all its software was removed I have to
>>>>> wonder why is this service still present...
>>>>>
>>>>> psqlWGE set to Manual now it's bact to Auto. What is this thing? What
>>>>> software are you running that needs this thing to be set to Auto? A
>>>>> quick search had revealed that it might belong to an accounting
>>>>> package, I can't say for sure but anything with "sql" in it usually
>>>>> suggests that it is part of some kind of database. And I have to
>>>>> wonder if this database is in anyway associated to the Indexing service
>>>>> that seemed to be doing cataloging work at any or all hours of the day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Viewpoint Manager Service was set to Auto, now it's Disabled.
>>>>> Information on this is a bit scant or vague but it seems that it might
>>>>> be junk installed by AOL and that it might be needed for some AOL
>>>>> features... or that it might be unwanted junk related to adware.
>>>>> Without knowing if you are on AOL I had decided to leave it on Auto for
>>>>> the time being. But as far as I'm concerned if you can live without it
>>>>> maybe you should have it disabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> W32Time set to Manual now back to Auto. You said in earlier posts that
>>>>> the Time service was improperly configured and that it couldn't
>>>>> synchronize with a time server, so all it's doing is trying (and
>>>>> failing) to contact a time server, network traffic for naught and for
>>>>> that specific reason I wanted to remove this from the picture, but I
>>>>> see that it is back... like the cat with nine lives...
>>>>>
>>>>> WZCSVC was set to Manual now it's back to Auto. This is is the service
>>>>> that automatically configures 802.11 wireless network devices. Are you
>>>>> on a wireless network? You said that you are a standalone machine that
>>>>> is not part of a network and that you plug to the internet with a
>>>>> telephone cable (I assume DSL, not dial-up, right?). Is your printer
>>>>> running on wireless? Is the webcam a wireless device? Do you have a
>>>>> wireless router? If you do have a wireless router, why are its
>>>>> wireless functions running if you use a telephone cable to plug to the
>>>>> internet? Why is this service back to Auto? For all I know maybe you
>>>>> have 'unwanted guests' accessing your wireless router...
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe you inadvertently changed some of these settings while you were
>>>>> 'playing' with CodeStuff Starter. I'm still quite busy with other
>>>>> commitments, I will try to be back later with a new batch file for you
>>>>> to run, we'll give it another try.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>> Well,John, the only approach I can see that makes sense, is for you
>>>> to give me a script file that will set all my services to what you
>>>> want, and then I'll run ServiceStat.vbc and autoruns.exe and
>>>> establish a baseline, and then I'll simply let it sit for 2 hours
>>>> and run autoruns.exe again and report autostart.txt and we can see
>>>> what was changed when I do nothing in between. Meanwhile, I'm
>>>> waiting for your advice.
>>>>
>>>> I can't understand how the Events Log shows absolutely nothing
>>>> happening in the two-hour period, so no reason for it not to
>>>> obey the hibernate command......yet it jest doesn't do it.
>