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From: David Black on 24 Jun 2010 11:05
When I click on Control Panel and then Power Options and set turn off monitor
to 20 minutes and turn off hard drive to 20 minutes nothing happens. However
if I change those settings to turn off monitor to 1 minute and turn off hard
drive to 3 minutes it works every time. I do not know what the problem is or
how to correct it, so any help would be greatly appreciated. You should also
know that no changes to my system have been made since this problem started
happening.
From: Unknown on 24 Jun 2010 12:10
The turn off cannot be executed until the computer is not running anything
for the amount of time you select. Therefore, when set at 20 minutes
something is running in the background. Do you have a virus scanner running
when the system is idle? Norton?
"David Black" <DavidBlack(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8CD117A1-1A47-42DB-AABA-2B933FA38C3A(a)microsoft.com...
> When I click on Control Panel and then Power Options and set turn off
> monitor
> to 20 minutes and turn off hard drive to 20 minutes nothing happens.
> However
> if I change those settings to turn off monitor to 1 minute and turn off
> hard
> drive to 3 minutes it works every time. I do not know what the problem is
> or
> how to correct it, so any help would be greatly appreciated. You should
> also
> know that no changes to my system have been made since this problem
> started
> happening.


From: PA Bear on 24 Jun 2010 12:23
Is it the same computer that was having System Restore issues in March
2010? => http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/be13b623c0b7f647

Is it also the same computer where you were getting "access denied"
errors in March 2010? =>
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/86e48c6b9b4b33af
--
~PA Bear, via Google Groups


On Jun 15, 7:48 pm, David Black <DavidBl...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> After I click on Control Panel and then Power Options and set my monitor and
> hard drive to turn off in 15 minutes of inactivity nothing turns off.  The
> only setting that works is turning off the monitor in 1 minute and the hard
> drive in three minutes.  I am not sure what is causing this issue or how to
> rix it.
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 24 Jun 2010 12:23
Please post any/all further follow-up in replies to your original (15
Jun-10) thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/51cd490282fbb61d
--
~PA Bear


David Black wrote:
> When I click on Control Panel and then Power Options and set turn off
> monitor to 20 minutes and turn off hard drive to 20 minutes nothing
> happens. However if I change those settings to turn off monitor to 1
> minute and turn off hard drive to 3 minutes it works every time. I do not
> know what the problem is or how to correct it, so any help would be
> greatly
> appreciated. You should also know that no changes to my system have been
> made since this problem started happening.

From: Jose on 24 Jun 2010 15:56
On Jun 16, 7:04 am, David Black <DavidBl...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Task Manager | Processes tab: What's still running in the background?
>
> > Any Scheduled Tasks which might be interfering?
>
> > What's your Automatic Updates setting?
>
> > David Black wrote:
> > After I click on Control Panel and then Power Options and set my monitor
> > and hard drive to turn off in 15 minutes of inactivity nothing turns off.  The
> > only setting that works is turning off the monitor in 1 minute and the
> > hard drive in three minutes.  I am not sure what is causing this issue or how
> > to fix it.
>
> > Thanks very much for the prompt response.
>
>     Under the Prcesses Tab there are a lot of items listed, but only one
> process
>     System Idle Process is using 99 CPU the rest are using 00  CPUs
>     I have no Scheduled Tasks set up to run
>     My Automatic Updates Setting is set up to download, but not install
> updates
>     Also, I have made no changes to my system prior to this issue starting
>
>
>
>

If any one of those lots of items you see causes the CPU to use 10% of
CPU time (even for a fraction of a second), the power down options
countdown timers gets reset.

If you just glance at TM, 99% idle could be the case, but you would
have to watch it for a while and maybe see something that uses 10% -
even for a split second that uses 10% if you are lucky enough to see
it.

So far I have in my list these Processes (that are not doing anything)
interfere:

Skype, any kind of Instant Messenger, MagicJack, AVG, Bit Defender.

Anybody know of any more?

They are doing something.
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