John John - MVP wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:


William B. Lurie wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
William B. Lurie wrote:

And now the latest news:
I simply repeated the above run, from 3:45 to 7:15 PM,
and the Log shows no errors at all, and not even any
events to complain about. There was a repeat of the
7035/7936 'Info' events telling about WIA's involvement,
but no hint of it ever having been asked to hibernate,
or not to. Maybe this is almost the success you were
looking for....namely, nothing is *stopping* it from
hibernating.......now if you can resuscitate that, you
hit the jack pot. (And of course, restore the Printer
association, and whatever else you may have removed.

Nothing that was changed in the .bat file should have affected the
printer. I suspect that your web cam or your printer is
responsible for the WIA events, remove the web cam and the printer,
completely! Remove them and any software that was installed by
them, you can reinstall them later... and this is only a clone so
no harm done with anything that you do on it, so let's get these 2
things out of the picture completely!

John
Okay, John, will do, later this morning. But neither of those two
should have any reason for causing an event that would occur once
every hour. I hate to remove them by Add/Remove programs. How about
just manually changing their .exe files to .xxx files so that they
can't run?

No, they must be properly removed by Add/Remove programs. Delete the
Lexmark printer in the Printers and Faxes section then uninstall all
Lexmark software. Also uninstall the Web cam.

John
Okay, John. I did the Add/Remove on all Lexmark and Creative Web Cam....
I did not go to Registry so their vestigial info is probably still
stored there.

Don't bother with the registry, remnants in there shouldn't hurt anything.


On rebooting, it kept referring to new Lexmark 5400 series in little
balloons off the toolbar, but I ignored them. When I go back
there I'll snoop to see what's really left behind.

Windows is discovering the printer, disconnect the printer from the
computer.


But I made the 2+ hour run, and it did not hibernate. Here are the Event
Logs, and you'll notice WIA and Automatic Update. Perhaps you'd like to
give me specific instructions on what to do about disabling those before
I make my next run. I'll be waiting............

Let it do it's automatic updates and then try again.

John

It's now 2:30, after resetting Automatic Updates and WIA to
Disabled, and again, desktop came back on after about 1.5 hours, and I
stopped the run after 2.5 hours..... no hibernate. Did we learn
anything, John? I'll reset Automatic Updates to Automatic and see
if it does different.