http://www.pcbanter.net New users to Windows XP start here. (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers) en Thu, 17 May 2012 15:41:42 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.pcbanter.net/images/002/misc/rss.jpg http://www.pcbanter.net http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1085186&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 14:49:07 GMT Your computer is set to Portable/Laptop, off monitor aft 15 min, off harddrive aft 20 min and sys standby aft 20 min. It use to go into standby and all you... Your computer is set to Portable/Laptop, off monitor aft 15 min, off
harddrive aft
20 min and sys standby aft 20 min. It use to go into standby and all you had
to do was hit the keyboard, move the mouse or bump the computer and it would
wake up...........................then one day it all just stopped. The
monitor still goes into standby but that's it..............not he computer.
I know this is an old problem. WinXP SP3.

I have been hacking around with this for about 3 years and this morning I
think I stumbled on to something that might be a help to others. It worked
for me and I am smiling again. After many years of use my computer would
faithfully go into standby and wakeup with the movement of the mouse or
activity on the keyboard, then one day it just quit. Well here is what I
found:
Using the following string executed in "Run" (%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe
powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState) I got the following message, "The device
driver for the 'American Power Conversion USB UPS" device is preventing the
machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again.
If the problem persist, you may need to update the driver".

I uninstalled the APC Power Chute Personal Edition 3.0.2 and that did not
fix the problem, I then went into Device Manager and
deleted APC UPS under Batteries and this did not fix the problem as this
reference has and requires no drivers.
The next thing I did was to delete "American Power Conversion USB UPS under
"Human Interface Devices".
When I completed the deletion of the American Power Conversation USB UPS
under "Human Interface Devices" and ran the string again the computer went
into Standby and woke up by mouse or keyboard movement as it had prior to
the disruption.
I then reinstalled the APC Power Chute Personal Edition 3.0.2 software and
the computer still performed as it was supposed to.
Apparently the drivers for the "American Power Conversation USB UPS under
"Human Interface Devices" must have gotten corrupted up and when I deleted
them they were forced to rewrite.
This is the first fix for me in this long and aggravating as well as
annoying problem. Hope it helps someone else.
If you only want it to go into Standby make sure you uncheck Hibernate on
the Hibernate tag in device manager.

This is a jpg of what my health drivers list looks like for "American Power
Conversation USB UPS under "Human Interface Devices"



]]> New Users to Windows XP Docster http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1085186 http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1085142&goto=newpost Sat, 05 May 2012 19:11:28 GMT Here's my problem, I had to reformat my drive and reinstall XP.
Everything was going just fine until I hit a snag when trying to
reinstall my purchased copy of Togglemouse. Unfortunately, the author
of the program and the site are no longer available and I can find no
way to enter the registration code.

Whenever there was an update to the program, you had to download it
from a special link provided in an email. Well some time ago I was able
to gather this much info while running a serial number searcher
application and at that time I didn't think too much about it then but
now I wish I had at least exported the key this came from.
Unfortunately as is the case, didn't think I would need to at that
time.

Is there any way a registry key be created from this info and if so
how?

??????????HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2025429265-1801674531-725345543-1004\Software\Toggle
Software\ToggleMOUSE\Settings
Serial Number: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

As of now it is in trial mode and I sure would like to get it back to
the registered mode.

Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance


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