On Mar 20, 11:38*am, "William B. Lurie" wrote:
Jose wrote:
On Mar 19, 9:31 am, "William B. Lurie" wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
Let's say you just disable 5 and test. *No good? *Do 5 more and test
again. *Works now? *Turn 1 of the last 5 on and test again. *Sooner or
later (hours later), you will find the culprit. *Maybe you can Google
(yes it is now an official verb in the English language) the items to
help you see what they do, if they are on some auto update/check thing
and if you can do without them - at least for testing.
You have many, many variables and the process of elimination may take
less time than researching individual items to find out what they do.
When you find the one that prevents hibernation, research that one and
figure out if you can change it. *If you can't figure out what it is,
figure out what it's not.
Jose, my work on this will continue but very sporadic until
after Sunday, because we have a daughter and 30-year old granddaughter
visiting us and sharing the computer until then. Your advice is sound
and welcome and I started with the 7 *you listed, overnight, taking
them out of startup. Was no help. But I'll be back.
I like to snip off a bunch of older stuff, so if anybody objects,
let me know.
Continuing on, since the computer is available, I have disabled many
of the items, leaving only 3 questionable "user" items in the
TaskManager list. I have to track down, for one thing, why
RealSched keeps coming back onto the startup list even when I
uncheck it. Not vital, because for the 2-hour test, I can just
delete it from RAM.
There is RTHDCPL.EXE which is some kind of Windows Audio program
which I can uncheck for these tests.
And there is RecGuard which also keeps coming back when I uncheck it.
Maybe you can advise me on those. Anyway, I still have a running system
with darn near everything that is "Compaq User" and suspicious in the
Task List, unchecked and not in RAM.
And further!!!!
ISUSPM.exe and ISSCH.EXE ...
Install Shield Update Service!!! And Scheduler!!!!
It obviously runs without being asked to by *me*.
I have searched but can't find out what the built-in parameters are.
Maybe one of them runs every hour!!!!
Anybody got any suggestions of built-in, hard-wired
'helpful' programs, like these, that maybe run every hour?

Uncheck ISUSPM - that is the InstallShield stuff which does want to
run and look for updates periodically. * It is configurable, but wants
to look once a day. *That could mean after 1 hour of idle, it checks.
You can change it, but I would uninstall it, but you will have to look
for it yourself to see how to do these things. *Look in Add/Remove
Programs.

Reboot and if those processes are still running in TM, terminate them.

Where is that CCcleaner Startup screenshot!?

Sorry, Jose.....I thought I had posted it.
Here's the way it is now. ope you can read it.
BTW, CCcleaner, when I ran
it yesterday, cleaned out the "Run" places that I like to keep.

You say those files are configurable, but I don't know how.
I don't think I'll find them in Add/Remove.....

http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billurie/ccshot1.jpg

Almost. We need to see the Startup info:

Click Tools, Startup and drag the columns around so all the Startup
items are easy to see on one screen. CCleaner is good for this since
it shows more information in a bigger display and CCLeaner has other
useful functions you can check out later. You can uninstall CCleaner
later if you don't use it.

Example:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6...nerstartup.jpg

I could not find the correct way to uninstall the silly InstallShield
thing and if it was me, I would not worry about trying to configure
it, I would uninstall it. I will look some more. It wants to update
once a day (at least) and will probably wait for an idle time and one
hour sounds good, huh?

Check in msconfig Service tab, Hide All Microsoft Services. What is
left are things you or your other programs have installed. If you see
any of that IS stuff there, disable it and reboot. I can't recall in
recent memory when I have see that stuff in TM and I have looked at a
lot of TMs. If something goes wrong, you can put stuff back through
msconfig - that is what it is there for (troubleshooting).

Check TM again after reboot - if you still see them, terminate them,
then wait your 2 hours, or check Event Viewer in 1+ hours for those
messages and I'll look for the best way to uninstall it even if I have
to install it myself (probably). From what I read, it is all
ridiculous crapola leftover from some other program that uses IS to
install itself. Their original WWW page is unhooked.

Most people have an IS folder here which is "normal" (enable show
hidden files and folders):

C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information

I have an UpdateService folder, but my UpdateService folder is empty.
Maybe I uninstalled it years ago when my XP was coming together. That
would be just like me.