PC insomnia
Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes
the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? |
PC insomnia
On 12/27/2017 10:34 PM, Optimist wrote:
Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? Hi Optimist, You have "fast boot" enabled. Your computer is not actually "off", it is in suspend. I turn :fat boot" off on all my customer's machines and my own. That way they get a boot boot when the power off and reboot. Warning: Fast Boot will stay enabled until you do a real shutdown winR shutdown /r /f /t 00 How to turn off Fast Boot: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html HTH, -T |
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On 12/27/2017 10:40 PM, T wrote:
I turn :fat boot" "fast boot" stinking typos |
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On 12/27/2017 10:34 PM, Optimist wrote:
Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? There are a bunch of power plan settings having to do with what devices can prevent sleep or awaken the system. This system refused to stay asleep. Traced it to the network controller. I fiddled with it 'till I was blue in the tooth. Finally disabled the interface in device manager and installed a PCI LAN card. Been sleeping fine ever since. If you review the system logs, they will often have an entry for each time the system wakes or sleeps. Sometimes, that's easy to follow. Other times you get something cryptic that doesn't help. |
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:40:12 -0800, T wrote:
On 12/27/2017 10:34 PM, Optimist wrote: Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? Hi Optimist, You have "fast boot" enabled. Your computer is not actually "off", it is in suspend. I turn :fat boot" off on all my customer's machines and my own. That way they get a boot boot when the power off and reboot. Warning: Fast Boot will stay enabled until you do a real shutdown winR shutdown /r /f /t 00 How to turn off Fast Boot: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html HTH, -T Thank you, T! |
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:43:26 -0800, mike wrote:
On 12/27/2017 10:34 PM, Optimist wrote: Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? There are a bunch of power plan settings having to do with what devices can prevent sleep or awaken the system. This system refused to stay asleep. Traced it to the network controller. I fiddled with it 'till I was blue in the tooth. Finally disabled the interface in device manager and installed a PCI LAN card. Been sleeping fine ever since. If you review the system logs, they will often have an entry for each time the system wakes or sleeps. Sometimes, that's easy to follow. Other times you get something cryptic that doesn't help. Thank you, Mike! |
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On 12/27/2017 11:10 PM, Optimist wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:43:26 -0800, mike wrote: On 12/27/2017 10:34 PM, Optimist wrote: Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? There are a bunch of power plan settings having to do with what devices can prevent sleep or awaken the system. This system refused to stay asleep. Traced it to the network controller. I fiddled with it 'till I was blue in the tooth. Finally disabled the interface in device manager and installed a PCI LAN card. Been sleeping fine ever since. I misspoke. I disabled the lan interface in the BIOS. If you review the system logs, they will often have an entry for each time the system wakes or sleeps. Sometimes, that's easy to follow. Other times you get something cryptic that doesn't help. Thank you, Mike! |
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On 12/27/2017 11:09 PM, Optimist wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:40:12 -0800, T wrote: On 12/27/2017 10:34 PM, Optimist wrote: Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? Hi Optimist, You have "fast boot" enabled. Your computer is not actually "off", it is in suspend. I turn :fat boot" off on all my customer's machines and my own. That way they get a boot boot when the power off and reboot. Warning: Fast Boot will stay enabled until you do a real shutdown winR shutdown /r /f /t 00 How to turn off Fast Boot: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html HTH, -T Thank you, T! You are most welcome. The bad news is that Windows is not a stable operating system. The good news is that you can cope by shutting down or reboot once a day and you will probably never discover what I am talking about. You can't do that with Fast Boot enabled. And, with Fast Boot enabled, M$ will wake your computer up when it wants to to do whatever it what to it. Plus computers are like car tires, the longer you use them, the quicker they wear out. |
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On 28/12/2017 14:34, Optimist wrote:
Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? ... Did you turn off Defrag? And don't forget about Window$ Defender might do some background scanning when the PC is idle.... -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:01:17 -0800, T wrote:
The bad news is that Windows is not a stable operating system. I completely disagree. The good news is that you can cope by shutting down or reboot once a day I *never* do that--not unless an update requires it, or I am going away on vacation. And Windows remains completely stable. Plus computers are like car tires, the longer you use them, the quicker they wear out. I completely disagree with that too. |
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:47:31 +0800, "Mr.
Man-wai Chang" wrote: On 28/12/2017 14:34, Optimist wrote: Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? ... Did you turn off Defrag? And don't forget about Window$ Defender might do some background scanning when the PC is idle.... Sometimes I wake up in the morning and the screen is still lit. Most times, it's not. Sometimes I leave Radiomaximus downloading and playing music, but I turn off the sound. Other times, I stop the station itself. I haven't tried yet to see if the two situations match up. |
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:47:31 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:
On 28/12/2017 14:34, Optimist wrote: Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? ... Did you turn off Defrag? And don't forget about Window$ Defender might do some background scanning when the PC is idle.... I haven't done anything to Defrag. Windows Defender not active as Kaspersky is running. |
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On 12/28/2017 10:04 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:01:17 -0800, T wrote: The bad news is that Windows is not a stable operating system. I completely disagree. The good news is that you can cope by shutting down or reboot once a day I *never* do that--not unless an update requires it, or I am going away on vacation. And Windows remains completely stable. Plus computers are like car tires, the longer you use them, the quicker they wear out. I completely disagree with that too. +1 Rene |
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On 12/28/2017 10:52 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 12/28/2017 10:04 AM, Ken Blake wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:01:17 -0800, T wrote: The bad news is that Windows is not a stable operating system. I completely disagree. The good news is that you can cope by shutting down or reboot once a day I *never* do that--not unless an update requires it,* or I am going away on vacation. And Windows remains completely stable. Plus computers are like car tires, the longer you use them, the quicker they wear out. I completely disagree with that too. +1 Rene maybe 2 :-) Rene |
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Optimist wrote:
Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24 hours. I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely these tasks can't take all that time? I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware infection. I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG. Any ideas please? Windows 10 has various diagnostic reports. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html You could also look for strange stuff in Reliability Monitor. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html ******* In Settings (Gear Wheel in start menu), you should check your Windows Update status (Update & Security : Windows Update). It could be that you've stopped receiving Windows Updates, the SoftwareDistribution folder has gigabytes of data, and updates are jammed up. Maybe that would account for 24 hours of feverish activity. Windows Update has a history link, and what you're looking for in there, is failed updates. ******* You can right-click the Start orb and select Run and enter winver That gives you the patch level. If you're reasonably up to date, it will say "16299.125". Here is an example of what things should look like. I have included Windows Update History, as well as pasting in the output of "winver". https://s17.postimg.org/dmcioefen/updates.gif Each entry has a KBxxxxxxx number and "Success" or "Failure" status. If there is a failed numbered entry followed by a success numbered entry, then no further action would be needed. The most recent entries are at the top of the list. However, if the same KBxxxxxxx fails over and over again, with no success KBxxxxxxx above it, then your Windows Update is jammed up. You can go to catalog.update.microsoft.com and download the corresponding .msu file with your web browser. That's an executable you click, which will do the install in an independent manner. After the .msu file is completely downloaded, you can: 1) Select shut down from the menu. 2) Unplug the network cable (or turn off your Wifi router for a few minutes). The purpose of doing this, is to prevent the computer from using wuauserv until you've had a chance to run the .msu file. 3) Execute the .msu file. If you have multiple .msu files, don't select Restart if a Restart button is present. Do as many .msu files as it will eat, *then* click the Restart button. You can batch up the ones that say Restart, and don't have to Restart for each one individually. 4) When the system comes back up, plug in the network cable and/or turn on your Wifi again. If you think the problem is solved at that point, you can select Windows Update from the Settings window (Update and Security). And go check whether you're up to date. In terms of components: 1) Patch Tuesday Cumulative - one of these will bring up up to date in one shot, on patches. A "catalog" download for the December one, might be 500MB in size. 2) Adobe Flash Update - used by IE11 and MSEdge browsers. Comes from Adobe, Microsoft delivers automatically. 3) Windows Defender definition updates. It's possible these updates continue to be delivered, even if you're running KAV. I just use Windows Defender here myself. There is also a completely separate Microsoft web page with a 100MB download file for this. 4) MSRT or MRT (Microsoft malicious software scanner). This is *not* Windows Defender, but a separate package which scans for the top 50 pests. Microsoft uses the information gathered, to keep track of how many people are infected. You would think Windows Defender or KAV would be enough, but this is an independent check run once a month. The program can also be run manually, from the system folder. The output syntax is a bit disturbing (it may complain during the run, then not show the nature of what it's seen at the end), but you should try it at least once "for fun". You're probably jammed on (1), or maybe you're running 15063 version of Windows 10, and are missing the equivalent of a Service Pack. Since Windows 10 is a rolling release, they don't call them Service Packs and they're OS Upgrades instead. But I just wanted to give the impression there is a "bigger update" than a Patch Tuesday, and it changes the major version number of the OS (15063 -- 16299). ******* Also, don't forget that Control Panels has a Troubleshooter panel, and in there, you can type "Update" in the search box in the upper right hand corner, and have the Windows Update subsystem debugged. The main outcome of this, would be deleting the contents of SoftwareDistribution. If there are 5GB of stuff in there, one would hope the size would drop after "cleaning" by the Troubleshooter. C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution (~450MB today) And if you say "where did my control panels go?", there is a fix for this, for the time being. This will make the control panels appear on the screen: Right-click Start : Run : Enter the word "control" then press return and then the Control Panels should appear. On the Task Bar, right click the Control Panel icon and select "Pin To Taskbar". That will leave your Control Panels in easy reach, until Microsoft messes around, yet again :-) HTH, Paul |
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