TweakUI question

[Muse]

At someone's suggestion, I have installed TweakUI on my XP Pro system so I can control autologon. I have my PC setup so I can start Windows without having to log myself on. This is critical for me because I have my BIOS set to start the PC at a certain time daily and I have software configured to make a recording of audio from my FM receiver. This works fine, but I'm wondering if I can have this functionality if instead of shutting down my PC, I put it into Suspend mode instead.

I've got S3 Suspend selected (it's S1 or S3) in my BIOS, and so far my experience is that when I wake up the PC (press the power button) when in suspend, I'm asked what user I want to log on. Maybe if I remove myself from the logon screen, this won't happen? I find this happening even though I've set autologon with TweakUI.

Edit: So I go into TweakUI and deselect my own account from being visible in the Logon screen. That leaves no users, so I'm hopeful that the logon screen will not come up when I wake the system from standby. But instead, the logon screen comes up with only the Administrator account. Worse, Control+Alt+Delete twice does not bring up the dialog where I can enter my own name/password. I'm literally forced to logon as Administrator and to get to my own account I have to logoff, do Control+Alt+Delete twice and then the logon dialog appears with my own name in the user field! Weird!

 

[bsobel]

If you suspend your system after your logged in upon wake your apps are still running, so your recorder should just work...

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: bsobel
If you suspend your system after your logged in upon wake your apps are still running, so your recorder should just work...

Well, I haven't tried it but if the behavior I'm seeing persists when the system wakes by Alarm from the BIOS, instead of my applications working, the system will stall at the logon screen.

Are you saying that my apps will run in the background anyway?

The thing is I want my system to make an unattended recording, having wakened from a suspend state instead of a shutdown state.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: bsobel
If you suspend your system after your logged in upon wake your apps are still running, so your recorder should just work...

Well, I haven't tried it but if the behavior I'm seeing persists when the system wakes by Alarm from the BIOS, instead of my applications working, the system will stall at the logon screen.

Are you saying that my apps will run in the background anyway?

The thing is I want my system to make an unattended recording, having wakened from a suspend state instead of a shutdown state.

Yep, once your logged in your apps should continue to run in the background even if your at the login screen.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: bsobel
If you suspend your system after your logged in upon wake your apps are still running, so your recorder should just work...

Well, I haven't tried it but if the behavior I'm seeing persists when the system wakes by Alarm from the BIOS, instead of my applications working, the system will stall at the logon screen.

Are you saying that my apps will run in the background anyway?

The thing is I want my system to make an unattended recording, having wakened from a suspend state instead of a shutdown state.

Yep, once your logged in your apps should continue to run in the background even if your at the login screen.

Excellent! Thanks. I'll try it tonight. If it works, great, if it doesn't I'm only out one not very important MP3!

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[Muse]

My little experiment last night failed. Don't know what happened or went wrong:

1. System in Standby

2. BIOS set to start PC at 11:51 PM, as usual

3. Autologon set to me with TweakUI

4. Recording to begin at 11:58 PM, end at 1:05 AM

5. Poweroff setup to put system into Standby at 1:08 AM


I came to the computer today and it was not in Standby. It was on. I'd turned off the monitor after putting the system into Standby, so I turn the monitor on and no video. I jiggle the mouse, still no video! Control+Alt+Delete, no response. Power button, no response. I had to hit reset.

Once back on I looked to see if my recording happened and it did not. The program (Total Recorder) didn't have an error message, so I have to assume that programs supposed to be running then were not running. I will look now in the Event Viewer for clues. I don't see anything in there. Maybe Event Viewer wouldn't record events corresponding to a wake from Suspend?

I'm going to have to run some experiments, I guess... Any ideas, welcome and appreciated.

 

[Muse]

I think the system non-response was due to Poweroff not being properly configured.

That doesn't explain, however, why my recording didn't happen.

Anyway, my experiments now are going OK except for one thing: while the MB BIOS was waking up the PC from suspend the first couple of times I set it, the last two times it failed to do so. Can it be that the Alarm wake from suspend is dodgy, unreliable? It so seems. I set the time correctly in the BIOS, I'm familiar enough with how that works and I saved my changes. I've been into that BIOS dozens of times. I'm pretty handy in a BIOS now, this is an Award 6.0 BIOS, the latest for my MB. Well, if I can't rely on it to wake the system from suspend I guess I'll just have to shut down the PC. Strange.