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Old November 24th 17, 06:54 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
OREALLY
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Default System Idle Problem!

Thanks so Much. Please keep me posted!

Marc

"Paul" wrote in message news
OREALLY wrote:

I set up a backup program (Acronis) and a Malwarebyte scan at intervals
when the computer is running with WMP going strong, as well as Thunderbird
and IE. Yet, after a couple of minutes, the computer goes to sleep.
According to the event viewer this is due to "system idle." But the system
is clearly running and is in no way 'idle.' I have the advanced power
options set to
SLEEP: NEVER. Is there a way to stop Windows 7 / 64 from reading the
system as idle when scheduled tasks are set up?

Here are the details of the system going to sleep:


Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 11/23/2017 3:52:28 AM
Event ID: 42
Task Category: (64)
Level: Information
Keywords: (4)
User: N/A
Computer: Marc-HP
Description:
The system is entering sleep.

Sleep Reason: System Idle
Event Xml:
Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
System
Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power"
Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" /
EventID42/EventID
Version2/Version
Level4/Level
Task64/Task
Opcode0/Opcode
Keywords0x8000000000000004/Keywords
TimeCreated SystemTime="2017-11-23T11:52:28.400629100Z" /
EventRecordID3950676/EventRecordID
Correlation /
Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="52" /
ChannelSystem/Channel
ComputerMarc-HP/Computer
Security /
/System
EventData
Data Name="TargetState"4/Data
Data Name="EffectiveState"4/Data
Data Name="Reason"7/Data
Data Name="Flags"0/Data
/EventData
/Event


They work through a few obscure reasons here.

https://superuser.com/questions/1247...option-setting

Apparently if the OS thinks there was a "remote wakeup"
it is then bound and determined to sleep again. So
rather than being in the running state and seeking
to meet the sleep criterion, it's in a "why did I wake up"
state, and seeking an excuse to go back to sleep.

*******

If the machine is behaving in a desperate manner
(sleeps in seconds), you can try a program like this.
It uses the same trick as multimedia players are supposed
to use. A movie player is also supposed to assert a
Don't Sleep thing while it runs, so that a user will
not be irritated by the OS attempting to sleep
half-way through a movie.

http://www.softwareok.com/?Microsoft/DontSleep

While some people actually have a problem with their
hibernate setting and timer, I take it on face
value, that the "sleep" recorded in your event is
actually S3. And consequently there's no need to
check the S4 (Hibernate) equivalent timer setting.

Some people are seeing the "sleep" behavior after
a specific hour in the day.

Could the behavior come from Scheduled Tasks ?
If so, it might happen once at a particular hour,
but you'd think it would stop after that.

I've been unable to find a decoder that
decodes the "Reason"7 part of your report.
I suspect that is significant. But without
a header file with ENUM types, I won't know what
the 7 means. Some other kinds of messages of
a similar nature, use a text string instead
of that number. I need to find the table for that.

Paul

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