Windows 7 Standby Really annoying me

Temi_D · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:26

Hi people, I have been running windows 7 flawlessly for the past few months except there is one problem thats bugging me...STANDBY

I set my pc to standby after 10 mins of use and it works...too well infact. No matter whats going on, if i leave the pc for 10 minutes, it goes to standby.

As far as i can recall (vista i think, and early days of win 7), if you are doing something such as downloading files from the internet or running a virus scan or something, your the pc isnt supposed to enter standby until those tasks are finished? But mine does anyway.
I get annoyed when i leave my pc to run a task only to find out later that it went to stand by half way through and didnt finish.

Is there a setting somewhere?

Caged · 15 Feb 2010 at 00:53

Temi_D · 15 Feb 2010 at 01:09

i dont understand

VortexA1 · 15 Feb 2010 at 02:08

Contol panel/System and Security/Power options.

Hope that helps.

If youre going to leave the comp doing tasks then change to a different power option profile.

Temi_D · 15 Feb 2010 at 08:43

I know that, i set it to go to standby after 10mins.

The thing is that even when time is up, windows ISNT supposed to go to standby if you are running a scan or downloading stuff, defraging etc...but mine does anyways

SubFocus · 15 Feb 2010 at 09:10

I know in XP this didn't use to happen but Windows 7 is slightly different, i think you can use Task Scheduler to wake your computer from sleep to run a virus scan / download and then sleep again.

boosfuk · 15 Feb 2010 at 09:26

I know what the OP means, it annoys me as well. You can leave a PC doing a virus scan and it will still go into standby even though if after 10 mins the scan has not finished. You can wake the machine and the scan will continue where it left off. Very annoying and I never found a solution when I searched a few months ago.

marc2003 · 15 Feb 2010 at 09:54

how is windows supposed to know the difference between all the millions of different applications out there? it's the application developer's responsibility to code this into their apps. they should be telling windows not to go into standby when they are busy.

(edit: that's just what i think. i have no idea if that's how it is.

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boosfuk · 15 Feb 2010 at 10:42

I agree it should be upto the app but it seems to happen with so many (including defrag software etc.). Also, might be connected, but it seems that Vista/7 do not have a way to prevent standby being initiated by the user like XP does. There is a long thread on an HTPC forum where it does not appear possible to code to stop an accidental user initiated standby while a recording is in progress.