system won't go into low power mode

[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

 

[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...)

 

[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