RE: XP will not "Wake the computer to run this task"
- From: BigBadBill <BigBadBill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 19:10:01 -0700
No solution yet. Gave up on it, basically. Glad to see that you weren't
fooled by the uninformed replies earlier in the thread... Gives me a little
validation, as it were.
"JK" wrote:
Hey Bill,.
Did you manage to solve this problem? I have exactly the same problem and
identical specs as you listed below and have not managed to find a solution.
I'd appreciate if you could post your comments.
Cheers,
JK
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:31:17 -0800, "BigBadBill"
<BigBadBill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, I've been crawling all over the net and can't find a solution to this:
I have a laptop on which I've scheduled a weekly defrag via task scheduler.
I want it to run at 2am.
Task Scheduler is enabled, and all of my scheduled tasks are configured to
run under a local machine account with a non-blank password.
If I'm actively logged on, they all run just fine. If nobody is logged on,
they run just fine, too, you just don't see them pop up. They all run as a
local user account with a valid password.
Here's the problem: once the laptop goes into hibernate mode, none of the
tasks that are scheduled wake the computer up to run.
For the maintenance tasks like disk defragmenting, I tried to have them
start at one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning, but they don't begin to
run until I manually resume from hibernation before I go to work in the
morning.
Laptop is an ACPI compliant Dell; ACPI shows OK under Computer in Device
Manager. Task settings are exactly the same as my work PC, which DOES wake
up from hibernate to run the task.
Only significant O/S difference is Laptop is connected to a wireless LAN via
a built-in wireless NIC, and PC at work is on a wired LAN through a Broadcom
ethernet NIC. Both run XP SP-2 w/ all Microsoft Update patches applied.
Laptop also has Norton AntiVirus / Internet Security with all extra bells
and whistles turned off, while PC workstation runs MacAfee / Network
Associates EPOAgent bundle.
I can't figure it out. Can anyone help?
Task settings are as follows:
Main "Task" tab in Task Properties dialog:
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Run as: MyLaptop\AnAdminUser
Run only if logged on: Unchecked (no)
Enabled: Checked (yes)
Schedule tab:
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Daily, 1am, every 1 day(s)
Settings tab:
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Scheduled Task Completed group:
Delete the task if it is not scheduled to run again: Unchecked (no)
Stop the task if it runs for: Unchecked (no max time)
Idle Time group:
Only start the task if the computer has been idle for at least: Unchecked
(no idle requirement)
Stop the task if the computer ceases to be idle: Unchecked (no)
Power Management group:
Don't start the task if the computer is running on batteries: Unchecked (no)
Stop the task if battery mode begins: Unchecked (no)
Wake the computer to run this task: Checked (yes)
Why do you think that the OS is going to run a task when your system
is shut off?
Hibernating is a "power off" state. It is not like standby.
When the system hibernates, it saves an image of the system to the
drive at the exact moment that the hibenate occured. It sets a
special flag in the boot sequence for the next time you boot for the
hibernate image to be read in so that the system comes back up exactly
the same as it was when it was hibernated. It then shuts down the
power.
The OS is not running at this time so there is no way that it can wake
your system up to do those tasks.
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