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Question

Windows shutoff timer versus my shutoff timer

by Sep 18, 2012 8:49AM PDT

I am running Windows 7, Home Edition.

I monitor a webcam and my computer takes a picture once a minute. This process can last from 7 to 10 hours. ( For the curious I collect ships that [*** through the Port Phiiip heads in Victoria, Australia.)

When I set my timer for 8 hours and check on it in the morning, the computer is off as expected, and a glow is pulsing around the power button. When I press the power button, the computer comes to life but it does not boot from a cold start, but seems to be on standby..

When the unit went on standby it shut down the timer that I had set. and the program that was taking the pictures. As soon as I powered it up again the timer and the photo program took up where it left off when the unit went on standby.

The solution is to lengthen out the time for the computer to delay its standby sufficiently to allow my timer to shut the machine down.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Well that's a deep subject.
by Forum moderator Sep 18, 2012 8:59AM PDT

On many PCs if they are asleep then they do not wake because Windows is not running. So why would you expect it to wake up?

Let's do a little research. But I can't offer any suggestions because the make/model of this PC is unknown.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/windows-7-backup-does-not-wake-the-computer-for/4e4a8e85-f97b-4daf-9df5-b5f69267c04d

Again, waking from sleep is very dependent on the machine and if the person/company that made it got all the drivers right.
Bob

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Well that's a deep subject
by elder-76 Sep 19, 2012 12:02PM PDT

Thank you for your reply.

It is not that I want to wake up the computer, I want to extend the time it takes for it to go into standby mode. The timer I am using already overrides the Microsoft setting for standby with is set at 30 minutes. You are right, it is the machine itself that takes it into the standby mode and overrides my timer at about 128 minutes.

I am using a Dell machine that I picked up second hand when my HP suddenly called a halt to everything. It came loaded with Windows 7, and is a 32 bit unit.

elder-76.

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How I solved this one.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 20, 2012 1:56AM PDT
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