Irritating 'feature' of Vista

KNiVES · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:28

Leave the computer alone, and it will sleep no matter if you turned off all power saver settings, sleep settings and screen saving settings. This sleep mode pauses all downloads currently in effect.

I started downloading CoD2 over Steam, and Vista paused it while I was at work. It's incredibly moronic that the computer must be attended to at least once every half an hour in order for large downloads to continue. I also downloaded America's Army from their website, with the Firefox downloader saying 0KB/s during the time Vista was on sleep mode. It is apparently normal that you can't leave Vista alone for large downloads.

Incredible.

<Dubz> · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:30

Mines never gone to sleep...that i know of, but then Sleep and hibernate dont seem to work on mine, everytime i try it always seems to wake straight back up for some reason, dunno if my mouse is to sensitive or something.

KNiVES · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:33

It's quite ridiculous, I mean, I have hibernate and sleep set to 'never' in power settings, yet Vista completely ignores it. It's retarded programming at its best.

killer_uk · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:38

Strange, mine doesn't go into hibernation.

Make sure you go into the advanced power settings, and then click 'change settings that are currently unavailable'.

Darkaber · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:40

I have a laptop runung vista mine has been on for 2 days solid now and never gone to sleep, I have tho

WotDa · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:49

I left mine on for atleast 2 hours whilst playing on my 360 encoding video.

Check all the power settings as already said.

Clarkey · 12 Mar 2007 at 22:58

you did set it under the right power scheme, right

korbk · 12 Mar 2007 at 23:00

Left mine on for days and it never went to sleep once.

Maybe you need to check the compatibility of your pc/mainboard/BIOS with Vista, before making generalisations about how the software functions.

drunkenmaster · 13 Mar 2007 at 01:15

have to say it but i'm another user who leaves large downloads going all night long most nights, and during the day, and pretty much all the time. it never does anything particularly stupid or irritating, it definately doesn't go into sleep mode at all.

marc2003 · 13 Mar 2007 at 06:13

go into the advanced power settings and check the settings for the hard drive switching itself off. change the setting to 0 minutes.

Priapus · 13 Mar 2007 at 06:19

I'm with the other guys on this one, I leave my Vista Ultimate machine on durning the night to decode avi files and convert them. Or I forget to turn it off. It has never gone to sleep.

Ace Modder · 13 Mar 2007 at 07:31

Mine has also never gone to sleep

Fr0dders · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:29

mine did this by default

but setting it not too sorted that no problem.

Moredhel · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:47

powercfg -h off

Do that in the command line and it will completely disable sleep / hibernate.

Rebelius · 13 Mar 2007 at 11:14

my vista doesn't go to sleep when I do - bandwidth is cheap at night and appears to be unshaped (or it's just never busy) so I leave it to download things and read me bedtime stories. it's always on when I wake up unless I set it to sleep when the queue is finished downloading