system won't go into low power mode

[Guest Jean]

In the last month or so, I've noticed that my computer will no longer go

into low power mode (ie, turn off the monitor and turn off the hard drive).

If I change the power option settings, the system will respond to my

settings thereafter, but if I turn the computer off and reboot, the

computer will again fail to comply with my power option settings.

 

I haven't changed or added any software, except I have done the weekly AVG

updates. Using the MS Configuration manager, all unnecessary start-up

software has always been bypassed. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

 

Jean

[Guest Bob]

Re: system won't go into low power mode

 

On Dec 3, 2:01 pm, "Jean" <J...@spam.not> wrote:

> In the last month or so, I've noticed that my computer will no longer go

> into low power mode (ie, turn off the monitor and turn off the hard drive).

> If I change the power option settings, the system will respond to my

> settings thereafter, but if I turn the computer off and reboot, the

> computer will again fail to comply with my power option settings.

>

> I haven't changed or added any software, except I have done the weekly AVG

> updates. Using the MS Configuration manager, all unnecessary start-up

> software has always been bypassed. Anyone have any suggestions?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Jean

 

Hi Jean

You might go into the AVG Control center, review the results of the

tests if you don't check them all (I don't). I recently put up their

version 7.5. You would look to see if they had a false positive on

something you need. I get false positives with them fairly often - so

far it has been harmless, old stuff - command.com a la 1995. But

yesterday they deleted motherboard_driver_realtek_whql.exe which was

my backup image for an NT4 system that died of psu stroke last year.

We didn't actually replace the psu cause the whole computer smelled

like a stale BBQ. (GriSoft could say they did me a favor to point out

some software I no longer have a use for. But...)

[Guest Jean]

Re: system won't go into low power mode

 

 

"Bob" <SierraBrother@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:dadc7663-eb1f-436f-8f61-e3015ca8673c@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

| On Dec 3, 2:01 pm, "Jean" <J...@spam.not> wrote:

| > In the last month or so, I've noticed that my computer will no longer

go

| > into low power mode (ie, turn off the monitor and turn off the hard

drive).

| > If I change the power option settings, the system will respond to my

| > settings thereafter, but if I turn the computer off and reboot, the

| > computer will again fail to comply with my power option settings.

| >

| > I haven't changed or added any software, except I have done the weekly

AVG

| > updates. Using the MS Configuration manager, all unnecessary start-up

| > software has always been bypassed. Anyone have any suggestions?

| >

| > Thanks,

| >

| > Jean

|

| Hi Jean

| You might go into the AVG Control center, review the results of the

| tests if you don't check them all (I don't). I recently put up their

| version 7.5. You would look to see if they had a false positive on

| something you need. I get false positives with them fairly often - so

| far it has been harmless, old stuff - command.com a la 1995. But

| yesterday they deleted motherboard_driver_realtek_whql.exe which was

| my backup image for an NT4 system that died of psu stroke last year.

| We didn't actually replace the psu cause the whole computer smelled

| like a stale BBQ. (GriSoft could say they did me a favor to point out

| some software I no longer have a use for. But...)

 

Bob, thanks for your response. I had posted the query some time ago and I

managed to find out the problem since then. I had used Glary Utilities to

clean out garbage from the registry, and I kinda overdid it. (The program

said a slew of entries were not needed; unfortunately, two of the entries

turned out to be for the LoadPowerProfile processe that is in the start up

process. My bad for blindly following the program's suggestion.)

 

Jean