Why wont Vista "Wake UP" for tasks?

[DaveBC]

I have virus scan, windows defender, disk defragmenter all on schedules to run late nites. But Vista doesent wake up😕

got any Ideas?

Dave

 

[Stumps]

hmmm not sure about that one...

I have the opposite problem...I can't get my Vista setup to shut down or restart if the PC has been running for more then an hour....it will complete all of the shut down process but as soon as it does it just sits at a black screen....but the PC is still running....even if I press the power switch the begin the automatic shut down it does the same...but if I hold for 4 seconds then it switches off...

If i have been running for less then an hour it will shut down or restart like normal, everytime.

Hmmm strange, It's not really a major problem, just an annoyance...it seems that Vista might have a few Power management issues that have yet to be sorted.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I don't believe that it is supposed to wake up for a scheduled program like that. Wake up is a hardware initiated action either by setting or manually doing something that the machine is set to wake up for.

 

[bigi]

"Wake computer to run this task" - Make sure this option is checked.
rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState - this will make it sleep.

BIOS: S3 power option needs to be selected.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: bigi
"Wake computer to run this task" - Make sure this option is checked.
rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState - this will make it sleep.

BIOS: S3 power option needs to be selected.

Yep...you have to select the option for it to wake up in the first place.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: bigi
"Wake computer to run this task" - Make sure this option is checked.
rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState - this will make it sleep.

BIOS: S3 power option needs to be selected.

:thumbsup:

By default defrag (didn't check the others) is not set to wake the computer to run that task.

 

[DaveBC]

Thanks for the help !

 

[nerp]

From what I understand, scheduled tasks that are missed due to the machine being in sleep/hibernate are re-scheduled and generally get taken care of the next time you're up and running and the machine becomes idle for a while.