Vista Hibernate Mode
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I have my power settings configured to never auto-hibernate, but just to auto-sleep only when on battery or when I close the lid.
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
Check for the "hibernate after inactivity" setting, I don't have Vista on my lappy, so I can't tell you where (I remember it being a button/link to do with customize profiles). Try logging in and leaving the cretin for two minutes and see if it hibernates. In any case, this has been the reason I disable any power management on any computer with any version of Windows. Especially when it comes to screen brightness (on laptops) - Windows just doesn't get it right (unplug screen goes dimmer, plug in it stays the same - but that could be TOSHIBA). And get rid of any OEM CRAPWARE. When you pop that driver CD in only install drivers, not one of the utils that Jimmy, the TOSHIBA CEO's eight year old son, decided to write (yes I have beef with TOSHIBA - and yes, it's TOSHIBA, not Toshiba for some reason). Sorry for the rant, but TOSHIBA should learn how to adhere to standards - and how to spell - and how to write decent software. For crying out loud.
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Vista requires very long passwords... part of the Microsoft Security Initiative. Also, Richard used to work in a machine shop that had CNC machines controlled by Windows NT 4.0, so he has only one finger left.
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ROFL - THAT was PERFECT!
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
I don't have a problem with it re-hibernating (not that I've tested it). I do have a problem when putting it in to hibernation, sometimes it just logs me off instead. I come down in the morning to a very hot lappy! :doh:
You don't have to be mad to live here [UK], but it helps.
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
When you change the power settings you're only changing it for your profile. At the login screen I think it uses the default user profile, so it ignores your settings. I don't know how you change this under Vista but under XP you could create a new user, change their settings, then copy that profile over the default user. I'm sure there's an easier way of doing it by changing the correct registry key, which in XP I think is somewhere in HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/PowerCfg.
Regards Nelviticus
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I wish I could find it. Since I reinstalled Win2k3 my system locks itself every 5 minutes. It's not in the power options, and it's driving me nuts. It never did this before...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
isnt that in the screen saver settings?
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
By installing windows XP
That won't help. XP does it as well.
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
Yep, my XP box does this as well. 5 minutes on the dot after booting from hibernate, it'll shut down again if you've not used the keyboard or mouse. I've never found a means of altering the behaviour, modifying the power profile for the welcome screen account didn't seem to do anything. It even survived a reinstall of XP. Could it be an option in the BIOS that Windows is picking up and interpreting as "shut down with extreme prejudice after X minutes of no activity"?
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actually, not again ;)
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
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actually, not again ;)
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you missed the joke icon, didn't you? ;)
Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
If you need an icon to signify something is a joke, it isn't.
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If you need an icon to signify something is a joke, it isn't.
Earl Truss wrote:
If you need an icon to signify something is a joke, it isn't.
the joke icon is on the subject line. I think you are talking about the smiley in the post.
Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
Why do you use Hibernate instead of Sleep? (I use hibernate because sleep doesn't always work properly: either doesn't go all the way to sleep and gets REALLY hot in the laptop bag -or- won't start back up: black screen, no output, fan on after hitting power button or raising the lid)....
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isnt that in the screen saver settings?
I think you're right. I'll have to check that when I get home. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
Check the BIOS for a setting on sleeping after so long of inactivity. My 2002 Dell laptop running XP does this too, and I believe it's a BIOS feature/setting. Perhaps it is a holdover feature for casuing DOS to sleep or something because it'll eventually go back to sleep if I leave it at the LILO prompt too. In my case, it waits a lot longer than 2 minutes, so I rarely miss the window and don't mind it.
patbob
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
I haven't had this problem at all with Vista. I often hibernate it (not sure why - I mean, saving state is great, but it takes so long to boot back up!) I am running Ultimate on a laptop, but I doubt that would make a difference...
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Why do you use Hibernate instead of Sleep? (I use hibernate because sleep doesn't always work properly: either doesn't go all the way to sleep and gets REALLY hot in the laptop bag -or- won't start back up: black screen, no output, fan on after hitting power button or raising the lid)....
I use hibernate because I like the combination of saving the state, and turning it off. I don't like to leave the house with the computer on in any way, including in a low power state.
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Does anyone else here use hibernate in Vista? When I wake my desktop machine from hibernation, it only allows me about two minutes to log in. After the two minutes, if I haven't logged in, it automatically re-hibernates. :mad: I can't find any setting in the Power Options control panel that addresses this behavior. Does anyone know how I might stop it from automatically re-hibernating?
I had this exact problem, and I made a big rant about it here on my site[^]! To save you the bother of going there, (and so you don't think I'm posting just to make a lame plug,) I don't know why it's an issue, but do I know one way to fix it; enable the WMP media server. It uses Away Mode which prevents idle shutdown. Vista seems to have a idle shutdown that can't be disabled; I may love Vista, but I don't like this "feature".
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I had this exact problem, and I made a big rant about it here on my site[^]! To save you the bother of going there, (and so you don't think I'm posting just to make a lame plug,) I don't know why it's an issue, but do I know one way to fix it; enable the WMP media server. It uses Away Mode which prevents idle shutdown. Vista seems to have a idle shutdown that can't be disabled; I may love Vista, but I don't like this "feature".
Thank you so much for your post! I appreciate your concern and thoughtfulness. I did read your blog post. Question: Are you saying that your GigAlarm solves this problem, or that it does something else? I will try the WMP solution, and see if that works. Thanks again! :thumbsup:
